Tastemaker Allowables

By | 1 November 2014
(15 signs I’ve become middle class)


    

  1. I don’t save anything for good
    2. 

              a.  I don’t save anything for bad

  2. Mind the poorhouse, cantilever side split
    3. 

  3. 60 slow on the know how
    4. 

  4. Berate with the swordfish mouth/kisser
    5. 

  5. Orchestrate
    6. 

  6. Take them down any way you like
    7. 

  7. Jazzercise.
    8. 

  8. Jazz ballet. Jazz jazz.
    9. 

  9. Cry with diamonds, but keep gold in
    10. 

  10. The spirit is upon us in our gleaning head
    11. 

  11. Calibrate with the joypin, or knuckedust the foundling
    12. 

  12. I’m never impressed by _______ .
    13. 

  13. Control
    14. 

  14. Cussons Imperial Leather
    15. 

  15. Slate
    16. 

  16. Round vowels round vowels dirty mind
    17. 

  17. Relinquish thread
    18. 

  18. Turncoats line the graduation queue
    19. 

  19. Marmoset coat, and the way we were
    20.
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Melinda Bufton is the author of Girlery and Superette. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including anthologies Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, 2016) and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter Publishers, 2016). In 2019, she was the winner of the Charles Rischbieth Jury Poetry Prize as well as the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award, the latter resulting in the publication of her third collection, Moxie (2020).

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