Lifeworld

As blunt as cow snout
round as Buster Brown's toe
life's artless reality project
unadorned grunting hand-to-mouth
heel-toe, elbow grease
greedy marrow-sucking paycheque
costs me
functionalist stripping away of symbols, signs
this day a to-do list
week, month, year, a book of lists
a minimalist text
performing myself
first person narrative
marked body in a society of spectacle
blind spot in the centre of the eye
as reflexive as a swallow
and in river sand
the weight of a heel