Published in Overland Issue 205 Summer 2011 · Uncategorized Heide DJ Huppatz Is this lunch definitive? If I were Manet it would be. The cows are thin, corrugated & still. Small, singular observations are reassuring, but only if you can attribute significant power to them. This is a concrete poem about a waldorf salad I bought in Walmart. Now it’s naked. D J Huppatz is a Melbourne-based writer who has had poetry published recently in VLAK 2 (2011) and Black Inc.’s The Best Australian Poems 2011. © D J Huppatz Overland 205-summer 2011, p. 76 Like this piece? Subscribe! DJ Huppatz DJ Huppatz lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Recent fiction in Variant Literature, Menacing Hedge and Fugitives and Futurists. Author of two poetry books, Happy Avatar (Puncher and Wattmann, 2015) and Astroturfing for Spring (Puncher and Wattmann, 2021). More by DJ Huppatz › 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 4 May 2026 · Journalism Journalism in decline: a response to Michael Gawenda Jeff Sparrow As the author of a jeremiad about media ethics, Gawenda must, at some stage, have stumbled across point twelve in the MEAA code. It reads: “do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors”. I await his retraction and apology. 1 May 20261 May 2026 · Long read Dungeons & Dragons is a waste of time: an unproductive case for radical action Scott Hudson Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive.
