Comfortably white/ comfortably numb

We comfortably white Barrack for our teams on Those religious Friday nights As footballers crush bodies Into each other There he goes, Rioli , Buddy , Silk, Balletic dancing through myriads Of white befuddled faces Thinking what the hell As we champion their genius , But if they play for the opposite Side they are […]

Sounds of silence

…..And behold the great gathering of bodhisattvas and Jesus disciples , Shams and his followers , Arjuna and Krishna , Moses on the battlefields of Lafayette Square singing Lean on me with candle vigil as if it were a holy place and by God it was , and someone quoted Dalton Trumbo , Walt Whitman, […]

On a midnight clear

Magical shit happens when cowered by doubt unable to move forward or back. It was on a midnight clear in October when the sky shook with Thor like thunder rolling across the sky black waves from the deep. Show me a sign I uttered from beneath the bedsheets. And there it was , my Billy […]

Better souls

After Shirley died she said let’s go for drive . I said, okay , where ? Let’s go to Albury she said. Albury, fucking Albury , what the fuck for ? I dunno , I just want to drive , let’s just drive. We ended up somewhere near Daylesford a long way from Albury travelling […]

Tell Myles I sent you.

I was staying at the Adelaide Hostel in Isadora Duncan Lane, San Francisco. A fellow I met there said, ‘let’s have a drink down near the Tenderloin district’ , famous in the old days for its butcher ways. In a bar as dark as night, the owner said, ‘go down to Green Street to O’Reilly’s […]