Overland literary journal

OVERLAND 198
autumn 2010
ISBN 978-0-9805346-5-8
published March 2010

wide open road

There could be anything … elongation of a spear
 Needling To a sphere they think, mind suffused with
 honey, i reach out, hes a dead man,
 closing the gateness behind him.
 We crack the nut & Go on – Theres a Ballet in the trees
 What a Cool Idea, the economy flows Like a creek
 at our feet, with a few subtle body bags we ignore.
 Then i realise im not wearing my red
 Pin or singing
 ‘How do you think it feels at night!’
 It gives you a bad back
 & a youthless appearance
 Sleeping with people or sheep dogs
 When the loneliness you love is in the
 Eyes of someone else youre wired
       We came back after a decade of
       Drought the briar & burdock gone trialling new forms of
       Outdoor glass – the schools are laying eggs now
 Our vehicle stops
 We sit on our tails
 Some get pads out
 Draw a blue sky
       Reflectors on the inside …
 You touch a locust & have a vision
 That were
 Walking along a rope not
 A-road the koalas Yaaawnnnnnn
 For the money
 Nurses cruise through pursued by reporters on trikes.

Michael Farrell is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. His latest book is a raiders guide (Giramondo, 2008).
© Michael Farrell
Overland 198-autumn 2010, p. 48

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