Welcome back Southside Max. Bet your hotel is a bit swisher than the Little
National Hotel in Barton, Canberra tonight. The bed is king but reaches
literally from wall to wall.
Hope you both get overlap soon. Watch out for election poop.
Bill
On Wednesday, 22 June 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jet Lag after Long Trip
>
> In the hotel-room dark this morning,
> Melbourne’s winter solstice -
> body clock still out of kilter -
> I composed a sentence or two
> for yet another light poem:
>
> Anxious about her autoimmune
> deficiency as she planned our big trip -
> Seatac, SF, AK, Melbourne -
> she bought in a box of surgical masks -
> tried on one, judged it too small,
> too tight, and left them behind.
>
> On the long series of hops,
> with crowded airports and planes,
> we saw just one traveller masked,
> an elegant young Asian woman.
> It looked like a fashion accessory.
>
> Needs a strong joke to follow through.
> Dawn delays over the Dandenongs.
> Morning traffic below us beams
> towards town. Soon the black glass
> of the building opposite will reflect
> Albert Park Lake and the Bay beyond.
>
> Melbourne, June 2016
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