Without Debt

Geoffrey Aitken

no hint

of insanity

in my childhood

teens

late youth

until girls

asked questions

of me

my strength

tested

on dance floors

in restaurants

clubs

theatres

saying

take me home

while answers

still search

for anchor points.

even my Psychiatrist is puzzled

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Geoffrey Aitken writes on Adelaide’s unceded Kaurna land, an awarded minimalist poet freeing his ‘lived experience disability’ for publishers [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN]. Recently, ‘Verge Anthology’ – [Monash Uni AUS], ‘unusual work’ [AUS], ‘the engine(idling’, '‘The Institutionalized Review’ [US], ‘Underbelly Press’ [UK], ‘The Broken City' [CAN] and soon, ‘Social Alternatives’ [AUS]. Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.

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