Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 · Uncategorized Solve a problem and it grows two heads Michael Farrell when I get what i want i worry go off bleeding into the Dusk lean my hungry Head against a taco Truck, nibble till i’m fit to bust on service Friendliness. independence is stark and hard-won, like a Sky blue Tiger that scares off mice but won’t touch Flies: and tigers are so unmusical, I think but don’t say turning Conversation into a stalemate which reminds Me i meant to get a crow to share the Load of bread my mother sent. my Dentist says i’ve naturally gold Teeth so i hide my smile when i’m down the Street in case of muggers You love me so much i daren’t risk the Love i might get from others when I was in rome i was jealous of Everyone in paris: it created an emotional Short-circuit, that followed Me around the world. it was like when I was an uphill champion and I felt so well i would take a pill and some Medicine to wash it down suddenly There were two hills and double the Competition and two Bottles of water making me twice as thirsty so I went twice as fast to get away from It all and found Myself in the desert sitting on cacti and talking to Camels like they were Poets and dreamers not thieves and Sorcerers or dope test informers suddenly a Bullet came out of the West and i saved my humpy Mate’s life with an improvised Vest: it fell off their chest into a Tin can i produced for the purpose now This was music but i’d never find a Producer in this apparently deservedly maligned Part of earth Michael Farrell Originally from Bombala, NSW, Michael Farrell is a Melbourne-based poet, with a collage practice which can be seen on instagram @limechax. Googlecholia is out now from Giramondo. More by Michael Farrell › 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 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.