Max thanks for that picture I fondly remember a coffee bar in St Kilda many
years ago
Cheers P
Did wonder if it wouls have been good to end at 'somewhat chipped and
frayed.'
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 30 January 2013 10:21
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Subject: moving snap
Goodbye Ruffey, Hello Fawkner
Goodbye Ruffey -
but I'll visit you
occasionally.
These seven years
living beside you -
creek lake and park -
have been great for me.
Not going to 'Donny Shoppo'
(Doncaster Shoppingtown)
will be great also.
Down in St Kilda Road
Melbourne 3004
I'll buy my fruit and vegies
from Prahran Market's
traditional stall-holders.
The dogs and I will walk
in Fawkner Park
without a lake of ducks
to circumnavigate,
but cricket ovals
tennis courts
and a cafe
on the pavilion
veranda, sitting
shaded by big umbrellas,
planning which avenue
to stroll under elderly
Moreton Bay fig-trees
returning at length
to the private gate
between park and Kia
Ora, our venerable
apartment building.
Its name, I may add,
comes from the cordial
once known round the world -
Maori for Welcome,
it suited the factory owner,
who built for his workers
smart flats in the style
of Streamline Moderne,
1937.
The year I was launched!
I too feel streamline-moderne even,
somewhat chipped and frayed.
Cared for by younger
generations, we may
continue to feel we're
appreciated,
even cherished,
a wee while longer.
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