Jonathan Cant





Ironical AF (Anagram Fun)

Warm wind in the Mojave Desert during an   aircon fail
while old Frisco’s Golden Gate Bridge receives a cold-   iron facial
breath of fresh sea breeze high above the bay where   I falcon air
streams. Below me, a whale swims free—the last   finial orca
in the food chain. Thirsty—I’m sky-drinking as    if cola rain-
ed down. Then I find rare bank notes at some random   L.A. coin fair.
You’re, like, so weird and ironical as fuck,   California.



Source: "Hotel California" by The Eagles.

Note: Gram Parsons, considered by many to be a major influence on The Eagles’ early sound, died on September 19, 1973 
at the Joshua Tree Inn—a motel in California’s Mojave Desert, from a drug and alcohol overdose.

Jonathan Cant is a Sydney-based writer, poet, and musician. He won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry, was Longlisted for the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize, and the Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Prize, and Commended in the W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize. Jonathan’s poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, and Brushstrokes III.

 
 

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