The narrative moves smoothly to that neat conclusion, Bill.
Not knowing anything about the personage, I first took that ‘ferryman and guide’ to be the awful ubiquitous earphones of information most galleries now provide...
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On Nov 25, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Surveying sculpture at McClelland
> Outdoor Gallery, eyes down,
>
> appreciating Smalls, a line
> of tiny metal personages
>
> arranged in sand, when
> a slight kerfuffle behind
>
> announced the presence
> of a trolley, golf cart really,
>
> ferrying three snowy-haired
> types around the exhibits.
>
> Frostiest-haired front passenger
> hunched and half-listening
>
> to his ferryman and guide
> while his eyes fished about
>
> was Robert James Lee Hawke,
> whose golden Nugget leather mug
>
> tricked my recognition receptors.
> I don't know this man at all.
>
> Perhaps the surprise was seeing
> that fleshy puppet in open air.
>
> Emerging from behind celluloid,
> there in sun, all unscreened by tv.
>
> Before anyone, even if they
> had felt inclined, so much
>
> as Hail Bobbed, the cart
> rolled off behind a bush
>
> and Bob, stepdad apparently,
> of an exhibitor, was gone.
>
> bw
> 26.11.14
>
> * Australia's 23rd Prime Minister, 1983-91
>
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