.
I explained that it was getting up on stage and saying things,
Not exactly acting, you know like performing?...
Yeah I get it,
She said before I could finish,
I was going to add there isn’t always necessarily a stage,
Either.
The waitress and I.
***
He’s gonna wait,
To punch that fucken cunt’s head in,
‘til after Thursday,
So he doesn’t have to spend all weekend in the nick,
His friends agree as the idea goes around the table,
Yeah wait until Monday,
One table away I keep my eyes down on the coffee,
But I am desperate to look up and see what they look like.
Capture their faces.
* * *
When kids are up on stage saying “We are the World/the Future”,
They are annoying,
When kids are up on there with something more depressed,
Self-destructive and hopeless things,
They are still annoying.
Really, really annoying.
* * *
Getting a tattoo written in a language you don’t understand,
I don’t understand,
For all you know,
You’re walking around with I’m a fuckwit,
Written on the side of your neck,
And even if you’re not...
You kind of are anyway.
* * *
Tough men here are all wearing short shorts,
Not enough women are.
Someone should do something.
* * *
I am definitely not one of these backpackers,
I am just here checking it out to make sure I don’t do all the same things they are doing which would make me a back-pack ...eh.
***
Music is piped out onto the street,
Backpackers are here,
Bugs are everywhere,
My water is in my bag,
My bag is on the floor,
All the cute girls are with all the dorky guys,
All the chairs are out in the beer garden,
Taxis are across the road waiting,
No one in Mildura has ever seen a safari hat before,
Or so I gather.
And the Beer is right in front of me.
* * *
As she walked back across the vast distance to her friends table,
From my window-side perch,
I then realised she wanted the monosyllabic,
Somewhat-belligerent-in-his-shyness-suggesting-a-deep-wounded-ness,
Mysterious stranger, personae.
Okay, ah, let’s see...
He’s drifted into Mildura on a trail of empty bottles and broken promises,
Explaining this slowly while staring off away from eye contact,
That maybe just maybe,
Some tender mercy moment with her, here,
Might heal.
Instead, all her questions are answered well,
Lyrical, sharp and practiced, and I made her laugh,
A lot,
But she didn’t want that.
People sitting quietly by themselves,
Like I was,
Are supposed to be shy,
Not gregarious, conversational masters,
Like I am,
Too smooth, too polished and rehearsed,
No one needs rescuing here ...except her,
She makes a strategic exit.
I am again left alone in a crowded room with my notebook,
Only now,
It’s not by choice.
* * *
Observational humour is essentially dry, but not always sober... haha.
Ha.
* * *
Inspiration is an alarm clock,
That you have forgotten to turn off,
On your day off,
And it must be silenced, immediately!
* * *
You should go over there,
To the girl from Mildura who walked off on you before and explain,
Carrying your bag and new- found belligerence,
That yeah this used to be the shy guy you suspect she’s after and all that,
But no one found that interesting, except myself,
So you gave up and started to be actually interesting,
Albeit every bit as pretentious.
All you did instead was write (this) down,
Your own exegesis on why you will never win,
Then again...
There was a pause before you wrote Mildura before,
Where you had to remember where you are,
And she lives...there.
Guess that makes you even.
* * *
Your father is a thief,
He stole the suburbs and put them in your country town-eyes,
Possibly making his getaway with them on the back of a ute,
There are utes everywhere you know,
Utes in their eyes, straying across the room,
Attempts at stolen glances,
But my eyes can't hide the metropolis I'm from,
So no one's stealing anything,
Or is getting away with anything, either.
* * *
I want another drink,
I want a taxi,
I want a complete sentence,
I want Oliver Reed’s last words,
I want you to go look up what they were... yep.
I want money to spend so I can want my money back,
I want long flowing hair any colour big breasts smooth legs arching heels,
Lips that are just too good to smile with.
All over me,
No you idiot ~ I mean I want them on someone else,
Whose on me,
No just one of each,
No I meant a woman,
I mean I want this person to be a woman...
I mean I want...
I want to start this over again,
Wonder if Oliver Reed ever made it to Mildura.
-Peace
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