Allan Lake‘s poem: Cafe Strip


In my line of vision, girl/woman

with enhanced, lustrous lips

that block my view of bust-

ling street, sky.


Bottle blonde bad boy opposite: 

swastika tattoo on right cheek

a subtle clue that he does as

Hindu … or is it Fuck U? 

Anyway, nothing new.


Allan Lake is a migrant poet from Allover, Canada who now lives in Allover, Australia. Coincidence. His latest chapbook of poems, entitled ‘My Photos of Sicily’, was published
by Ginninderra Press. It contains no photos, only poems.

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