Our Quiet Achievements

You wake up in Alice
or almost there
'the animals of Coober Pedy
who rarely see a woman'
are probably a myth.
Wake alone to a Balmain view
and know its always been like this
-but not forever,
even in Europe or Mexico
there are beaches with babes crying
painted mime artists
statuesque to sell piss
-add execs know The Secret
Of Movement, a young woman
on a towel or at a train station
is not there for you saying
'all ages are contemperaneous
in the mind'
-we're all believers in fascism
and love if you go deep enough,
even the dawn breaking sex worker
with Parkinsons, the drunk
Fijian architect.
The Yugoslavian taxi driver
who came here to play soccer
has been beaten three times.
His english is violent.
He likes my choice in beer.