Like renovated patrons -on a good day I feel renovated -P post holday
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Sent: 25 July 2012 00:14
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Subject: snap: these views
These views
while it's not raining
relieve the midwinter blues -
from the front windows
of Degani's renovated
Bakery Cafe, Templestowe -
taking in far hills near Kinglake
where the fatal fires were
and a fore-ground
that'll never burn but
pains the eye with its
power poles and wires,
sunlit McMansions,
massed wheely bins,
parked cars, tin letterboxes.
Indoors it's now
the wood-fired oven
promising 'gourmet' pizza
and the new ceiling
amplifies the chatter
of the renovated patrons
to new intensities
of painfulness.
The waitress calls me Sir.
Why this vinaigrette
dowsing my barramundi?
salad so primitive?
The art show's also new -
big words with attitude,
the biggest GREED.
I snarl back at it,
pay politely -
see you again.
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