Published 29 July 20226 September 2022 · Poetry / Friday Features / Friday Poetry Poetry | Yaaas Sophia Walsh Sara and I attend the opening night for the NGV’s QUEER exhibition. We were not invited and we did not buy tickets – in fact we did not even know it was on until stumbling upon it after watching the new Batman movie at the HOYTS in Melbourne Central and deciding to walk home south along the Yarra. We stop on Princes Bridge to admire Naarm after the day’s rain and take in the view of fuck knows what – we wish we were in New York. At the exhibition there are bubbles everywhere. We make out by the fountain watch a drag performance and notice a throuple of TikTok gays canoodling in a corner under the archway by the wet wall. Some people have so much chest hair. Khanh from MasterChef is having his photo taken in front of the sponsor’s wall – being gay made possible by the City of Melbourne and American Express. Yaaas. The red carpet is pink – we long to wrap ourselves up in it and roll gaily all the way home to Frankston South. Overland’s Friday Features project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Sophia Walsh Sophia Walsh is a poet living in Naarm. Some of her work has appeared in Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, No More Poetry’s No No No Mag, and elsewhere. More by Sophia Walsh › 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 12 April 202412 April 2024 · Friday Poetry Dido Caroline Williamson Growing up not comfortable exactly, there / were deaths and silences and other difficult things, / when you talk about that history later people / are sometimes lost for words. But as you are / growing up, things happen to other people which you / observe, not fully understanding. 5 April 20249 April 2024 · Friday Features Soft targets Louis Armand On 21 December 2023, at 14:59, a terrorist armed with a ZEV AR15 military assault rifle opened fire in the upper corridors of the Philosophy Faculty at Charles University, Prague, killing fourteen and wounding twenty-five. They were students and colleagues attending lectures, taking end-of-year exams and preparing an afternoon programme of Christmas carols.
