two bucks in the bank we could be cursed
or blessed two trees of Illawarra plums to turn
into gelee and jam Kerri's eyeing off a local loquat
tree offering to send me the spoils
two bucks in the bank it's true money is over-rated
once you drank Verve Clique in swanky suites
in Melbourne hotels once you looked up at the stars dancing
through bullet-proof plate glass no neon lighting on the 13th floor
the Sociology Professor says you fit the stereotype perfectly
tenuous income separated parent precarious housing is this meant to be
reassuring a pay check away from living in the G6E
teenage boy and talkative cat, howling: where would you park where would you park
where would you
...
two bucks in the bank
five loaves and two fish
things could be
cursed blessed
I ask you to catch me a shooting star but you tell me
it isn't a star at all
it's just a meteor heading for a
fall
two bucks in the bank
are we cursed or blessed
four days till dole day not counting
do we lie in the gutter and look up at the stars
take a bucket to those Illawarra trees
make a nice gelee and jam
throw me a plum
Yes. Yes. Yes.
ReplyDeletePS Hope ya don't mind I pinched yer line :)
Delete(Good title for a poetry anthology I reckon)
DeleteHey Rob - I pinched the line from a comment from Kerri on Facebook - now you've pinched it from the blog - it's a well loved line!!! And yeah great anthology title :)
DeleteHA!
DeleteOh you doll! And I ended up with Dinner AND a beer!
ReplyDeleteHey dinner AND a beer sounds positively Utopian! BTW the poetry reading looked like heaps of fun:))
Deletegimme a string bean
ReplyDeleteahm a hungry man