Published in Overland Issue 228 Spring 2017 · Uncategorized A worm in your ear Chris Edwards If advertising pays communication targets its prods and vices. Likewise, a well-designed clientele can often entice potential contracts to web-sighted varicose advising options. To choose from globular recent yearnings, why not retch at lower cost? Many leach their purchase decisions times two, then open up your email. See? An advertisement for wankers or a trammel destination. To buy you there are a number of ways you can pay to approve your research engine. Others devise their business needs to promulgate societal media, or perhaps try bogs or trackie down websites that visit your manly targets. Read the rest of Overland 228 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Chris Edwards Chris Edwards is a Sydney-based poet whose publications include People of Earth and After Naptime, both from Vagabond Press. More by Chris Edwards › 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 7 March 20257 March 2025 · Poetry 3 songs for Charles Darwin John Forbes begins with languor, / the past tense of caress / which, besides flies & heat haze / post stress, / the intense air supplies — no ostrich feather fans / or punkahs needed — just to be at rest. 5 March 20255 March 2025 · Human rights Showing what really matters to us: on Australia’s continuing failure to honour the UN Convention Against Torture Monique Hurley and Andreea Lachsz So why have there been no — or only limited — moves to implement the bare minimum obligations pursuant to the OPCAT? The answer appears to be a lack of political will and a dangerous disregard for the lives of people detained behind bars.