Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts Monday 12 July at 2 pm Juan Garrido-Salgado I can’t think about your anniversary. At 2 pm, I don’t want to be here: A coffee shop next to the Entry of Woolworths Shopping Centre at Hilton. I try to write a poem for you, Viejo Neruda But prices & offers tangle up my hands; I’m trapped by products. I drink my long black & see Shelf Prices Reduced-In Green 1–10 long & narrow corridors. In the street the wind battles with clouds And rain wounds the pavement. It is cold, my bike is an old poem Leaning against a line of shopping trolleys Like an old figure’s head in the middle of nowhere Como un Viejo mascarón de proa en el medio de ningún lugar. Your voice came from this verse: Venid a ver la sangre por las calles. I can still recite this poem by heart. G’day mate, someone said to me; he carries a green bag. I drink my long black & I can see Special Price: Kellogs Cereal. Any 2 for $9.00 I can see Special Price: Huggies Nappies. Any 2 for $32.00 Noise is traffic junk in the car park, shopping trolleys. Customers want to leave soon and go home. Your voice is still in my head & your verses in my mouth. I can’t shut up; your verses come out louder, Like a strong wind shaking the remain leaves Of the gum tree in the corner of the car park I can’t shut up; your verses come out louder: Venid a ver la sangre por las calles. Venid a ver La sangre por las calles … Juan Garrido-Salgado was born in Chile and was a political prisoner under the Pinochet regime, but now lives in Adelaide. He has published three books of poetry and his poems have been published in Chile, Columbia, Spain, El Salvador, Brazil, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. © Juan Garrido-Salgado Overland 203-winter 2011, p. 72 Like this piece? Subscribe! Juan Garrido-Salgado More by Juan Garrido-Salgado › 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.