HOLIDAY BEACH HOUSE
Someone famous owns that house
Watch when the neighbours put their bins out
Ian Turpie
RED CLIFF ROOS
Kangaroo people, bright
eyed in final sun,
turn and stare at the Pacific.
Flower-handed people, leaf-like
ears alert, joeys scumbling
back into pouches,
roadside mortality putrefaction.
Flower-like bodies dreaming
out of the sun,
footsoles long and leathery, grey
pelts as soft as dusk.
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(Ian Turpie is an Australian television personality, celebrated for his cheesy charm and superb moustache, whose career reached a spectacular climax in (I think) the 1980s as host of (I think) The New Price is Right, though he continues to make guest appearances as a panellist to this day.)
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Coming to you from Brooms Head, population 56 -
56 million in summer
(but it's winter!)
Brian
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