Tug Dumbly - Frill Has Gone

Frill Has Gone    

One toddler in a Ramones teeshirt is cute.

See six, and curdle in contempt

for the market and its prey. 

Someone’s insight strikes you as fresh –

witty and astute.

Then you hear it again

and again, and feel soiled

to have been sucked in   

by some sluttish meme.

There’s a gecko in a Brisbane beer garden.

To me it’s novel, even thrilling,

a pretty green little thing

quizzically darting in and out of the foliage.

The local I’m with says ‘oh yeah them?

Fucken pests. Get in yer cupbobards,

gum yer electrics. We just squash ‘em’.