24 January 2012

Good Friday 1999



I’m not religious you understand
but I didn’t feel like calling anyone
or going to Darling Harbour to see
the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
under the freeway.

So I get on the bus
and go to the Museum of Sydney
in the rain.  I should have known.
Closed Good Friday.
Revenge of the Christians.

Showers, trickles of grey tourists
in Martin Place looking stupidly at poster ads.
I’m not the only fool.

Eight died on the roads today
trying to escape this watery, grey,
sad as a cinema queue in the rain
trapped in coffee shops
terminally dismal

Sydney day.

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