a couple of months old. 21st In Eltham I ask for grass & a girl says ‘You are in Eltham’. ‘So I’m like the foot soldier in City Hall in the movie version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, when he wants a cigarette & gets cartons of regular & menthol?’ ‘Yeah. So what are you after?’ We grow on our acre. A rock remains a cool pillow you don’t have to turn over. ‘That’s smooth for a ceramic bong’. She runs craft classes at a child care centre. ‘Guess you’re used to hydroponics; all the chemical fertiliser’. Told dad later about their in-ground pool. Told him there’s green leaves for a jungle feel, & he said ‘Sure! Such an ecosystem takes time.’ Next to hair of cane kelp I recited: “I was much further out than you thought”. Kookaburras in the boarded house belly laughed a nightclub theme.