every tradie can find it
in any town or suburb
their ute a divining fork
the station that always plays
Chicago ELO Fleetwood Mac et al
the skinny apprentice on the roof
all in falsetto the radio on a generator
between the nail guns the concrete polisher
a stomping bass too big
for 6.10 daylight saving time
when parents and grand parents
the code in the seed and womb
occupy every building site
to protest the morning’s hit parade
as each song bleeds into the foundations
weren’t we all
leaving on a jet plane
but for the things we found
all along the watch tower
yes if we just but fix them all on the ABC
ReplyDelete... it comes in three tasty varieties
each of them good for the soul
ah but how they grow
DeleteBut
ReplyDeleteI don't smoke
the same cigarettes
as him
I try and I try
as tears go by
but I still
can't get
no satisfaction
paint it black, there's a bathroom on the right
DeleteHa ha yes! ... Though I did see a tradie ute the other day, Queensland plates, with a copy of Patrick White's Voss on the dash. That messed with my head.
ReplyDeleteI remember a radio station advertisement "you know every song we play" like that was a good thing
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