Alex - “Trouble Taking Off”
Alex is a patient who undergoes“blackouts and the episodes and glass.” He visits the head-doctor to delineate his diagnosis. The indications hint at a mental infirmity that could be encumbering Alex from “ taking off.”
The Doctor - “Trouble Taking Off”
The doctor handles Alex’s case by endorsing that Alex reflect about his liaison with “ the people around him, not just friends or family but to people generally.” The doctor is anticipated to give a precise diagnosis considering the title ‘head-doctor.’
Australians - “ Australians”
Tim Turbull writes about Australian “ Sheep-shearers marooned/ in a stinking caravan/ near the top of the world.” The caravan suggests that they are journeying to some other place for Tim Turnbull conjectures, “Perhaps they'll take a peep/at Europe.”
The Subject - “Stranded in Sub-Atomica”
The stranded subject is an elderly man who is constrained to go to his parents’ residence “After four years of wrangling over unpaid rent the housing co-op,/ the one he helped found/in the seventies./" The dislodgement renders the old man categorically destitute.
Vic and Jill - “Stranded in Sub-Atomica”
They were roommates of the subject (elderly man) who “had to hire a skip/ to shift the shit he'd left.” After the ejection, the subject transferred the encumbrance of shifting his possessions to Vic and Jill as he pursued lodging his parents’ abode.
