Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts Ode to Business Man on Crown Street Adam Formosa Turning invisible will come as a blow. (if you turn your glasses upside down you can see the other side) Don’t let the waitress know or you won’t get your eggs Benedict! First turn your fingers to fist, (because they’ll surely know) tuck your feet under the table, hide those mustard-gas shoes, while your skin sinks inside itself. It folds and folds and folds until the table next to you (discussing how a 747 can’t drop into the sea) sees you squirming, undressing her words like crunching Velcro. Your hand passes through your macchiato! your fingertips – like glass – gleam hollow. (gone to the bottom of the Atlantic!) Next your: 1) sleeves will depress 2) tongue will fade 3) wallet will bulge under your empty suit So when the waitress comes, she’ll think you’ve done a birthday-runner, so pack light, the Atlantic is thirty-seven stories deep. Adam Formosa is a third-year creative writing student at the University of Wollongong. He was recently published in Best Australian Poetry. © Adam Formosa Overland 203-winter 2011, p. 73 Like this piece? Subscribe! Adam Formosa Adam Formosa is a NSW South Coast-based poet, whose best work comes out while listening to Deadmau5. More by Adam Formosa › 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.