So you have those awful big houses too, eh, Max? I like the way this keeps zeroing in from far to near to the personal feel of it all....
Doug
On 2012-07-24, at 5:14 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> These views
> while it's not raining
> relieve the midwinter blues -
>
> from the front windows
> of Degani's renovated
> Bakery Cafe, Templestowe -
>
> taking in far hills near Kinglake
> where the fatal fires were
> and a fore-ground
>
> that'll never burn but
> pains the eye with its
> power poles and wires,
>
> sunlit McMansions,
> massed wheely bins,
> parked cars, tin letterboxes.
>
> Indoors it's now
> the wood-fired oven
> promising 'gourmet' pizza
>
> and the new ceiling
> amplifies the chatter
> of the renovated patrons
>
> to new intensities
> of painfulness.
> The waitress calls me Sir.
>
> Why this vinaigrette
> dowsing my barramundi?
> salad so primitive?
>
> The art show's also new -
> big words with attitude,
> the biggest GREED.
>
> I snarl back at it,
> pay politely -
> see you again.
>
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