Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland · Uncategorized Electronic Overland Benjamin Laird Contents Benjamin Laird Editorial Poetry Mez Breeze Real_Time_”1sts!” [or: PanoptiConned Imagery From the Scene] Jim Andrews Aleph Null Jason Nelson Textsky Pip Smith Wayside Renga Gary Barwin The new squeeze Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White Disappearing Tully Hansen Writing Jessica Rae Counting Benjamin Laird Benjamin Laird is a Melbourne-based computer programmer and poet. He is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT researching poetry and programming and he is a website producer for Overland literary journal and Cordite Poetry Review. More by Benjamin Laird › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 19 April 2024 · Friday Fiction Stilted J.E “Mahal” Cuya One hour after midnight. Everyone in rooms. Living room – dark. Table look like monsters. Like death. TV on stand. Netflix Logo. No one watching. Residents asleep. They have dementia. 18 April 202418 April 2024 · Education A Jellyfish government in NSW: public education’s privatisation-by-neglect Dan Hogan A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school. The overfunding of private schools using public money is a symptom of a public service that has been rotted for a quarter of century by a political class with no vision beyond producing dubious, misleading statistics to deploy at the next election.