Around Australia  [destination: melbourne]
millions and millions of old ladies

go to the stock market, buy firecrackers
FIRECRACKERS:  bang!  bang!  …  bang!

OLD LADIES: we are the hotel

THE HOTEL: I am the eucalypts, am the sculpture garden

ROY LICHTENSTEIN:  I would hate to see 
a fire

start
but I cannot read the runes in this book of spells…

FIRE: <crackles>
HAYSTACK:  Go on without me!

WOMAN: Okay
but I’ll never forget

the smell of your hair



 

Lost
and after dark

nothing ever came through,

	only blew out
SPIRIT WALLABY:  you can’t eat here

COCKROACH: I’ll dance until I crumple

FRUIT BAT: your toes make me wanna do the Macarena

YOUNG BOY:  I will be your
nothing like

your  
continual strategy, your

	storage solution

SPIRIT COCKATOO: <preens>
KANGAROO IN DRAG:  teach me

BILBY:  I have hidden the treasure
who cares where

somewhere



 

In Theory
an Australian town is only as big

as its largest taxidermy koala
VENUS, GODDESS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY:  then we came to the suburbs

SEASHELL:  it’s my dream to be drunk out of

YARRA RIVER:  I love driving my ute

COREY WAKLING:  but you’ll never find me
not in a million years

not with a thousand dingos
no not ever ever

DINGOS: aaaooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
POEM: stick ’em up if you value your watermelons!

TRACTOR:  I would have thought
it didn’t matter

but now I see that it did