Hawke’s grandparents for Hawke. Hawke’s parents for Hawke.

Hawke’s special relationship with Hawke’s mother (for Hawke).

Hawke’s special relationship with Hawke’s father (for Hawke)

& Hawke’s father’s special relationship with God (for Hawke).

MY WORD MY WORDS: THE COLLECTED SPEECHES OF A THREE YEAR OLD—

Hawke’s special offer of his picture book to any purchaser of

ten or more copies of THE HAWKE MEMOIRS all signed by R J Hawke.

Hawke’s scholarships & Hawke’s Rhodes Scholarship for Hawke &

now the Robert James Lee Hawke Open Scholarship (for Hawke).

Hawke’s drinking. Hawke’s drinking records. Hawke’s drinking

to anyone who’ll drink to Hawke. Cheers. Bottoms up. To A A.

Hawke as advocate for Hawke & the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Then Hawke as President of the ACTU for the ACTU (& for R J Hawke).

Hawke’s affairs that would have remained only Hawke’s affair

if Hawke hadn’t cried about them in prime time to win votes.

Bill Hayden as Minister for Foreign Affairs & Governor General—

quite literally Bill Hayden for Bob Hawke as Prime Minister.

Concensus for Hawke. Hawke at the centre of his own concensus.

Hawke’s special relationship with perms & hairdressers (& mirrors)

& cricketers & yachtsmen & golfers & punters & tycoons (& mirrors).

Hawke’s special (if not unique) relationship with dinkum Aussies &

his own signature & autograph books of all shapes & sizes (for Hawke).

Hawke’s special international relationship with The Greater Israel

with Lebanon, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights &

with Hawke’s & Bush’s U S of A & Hawke’s & Gorby’s old U S S of R

& Hawke’s very very special relationship with none other than Hawke

in full frontal crying over Chinese tanks pulping Hawke’s Chinese

as Hawke would cry over spilt memoirs hawked, remaindered & pulped—

Hawke morally outraged & Greatly moved by the morally outrageous &

working himself up into a frenzy of rhetorical snot trailing down

like the Red Flag hanging limp over the last of the Red Flags—

that rendezvous with History if not with Destiny for Hawke

& The Silver Bodgie & Old Silver & old R J if not J C Hawke

old (Bob for no jobs) Robert James Lee Hawke (for Hawke).