Published in Overland Issue 233 Summer 2018 · Fair Australia Prize FAP winner – Poetry: The Deliveroo delegate’s day off D Perez-McVie ‘You either deliveridoo or you deliveridont’ Will Shu yelled at me from app land. But that was yesterday. Today I’m tender, teased, and toastie, everything shows it off. I’m with you now, comrade, loved one, theyfriend. We roll into the eucy-scrub, it’s lovely for us. Pointing I say: that tram goes straight to Toorak. But you are still here, still saying ‘This park’s big enough for our love; big enough for our big us’ I’m thinking of all the brioche, all the kimchi, the pickles – the long taste in the mouths of one million. And of ways we could bring up the True Cost of Work in those meetings we attend. I have been in scenes like this before: my paramour lawling in the grass, heavily, lovelily. We take up uttering, in God’s Own Voice – seeing what we believe: I am wrist deep in my heart, rising from my life. I have a recurring nightmare about the climate; I am not the only one. The New Unionist is a trans-femme in exile. Where will we go next, social democracy, success? The Right To Strike is everywhere available and nowhere allowed. I think that there is space in words for all human variation. I think there might be in the union. I love your overground word use. I love you for your poem wombling. What we reach is a peopled language. They say a deliveroo driver dreams this world, & I do, I do. Read the rest of Overland 233 If you liked this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year D Perez-McVie D Perez-McVie has been published in Rabbit, and edits poetry for Demos Journal. They live in Naarm, Victoria and post on Instagram @dpmcvie. More by D Perez-McVie › 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 December 201919 December 2019 · Prizes Fair Australia Prize 2019: the winners Editorial team Announcing the final results for the ten categories of the 2019 Fair Australia Prize. Hearty congratulations to all! 13 November 201919 December 2019 · Announcement Fair Australia Prize 2019: the shortlists Editorial team We are pleased to announce the shortlists for the ten categories of the 2019 Fair Australia Prize.