the rolling whale’s-eye
of the Farmers’ Santa
in its transplanted state
Queen St / Victoria
St corner
eyes fixed on your phone
– can I sit here?
– our bus is coming in 5 minutes, mate
– time to finish
up my smoke
plugged in – the Asian girl
cocks her head to one side
as if listening for it
for what? invisible
the sentence of her life
(21/11/06)
