May 9 Breakfast morning rains the facades of buildings reflect in sandy concrete that borders the tram tracks nothing clear just squiggles of colour you can identify as the residue of light from the subway across the road or leisure electrical discounts or the shop without a name just a ‘sale’ sign I watch the [...]

April 23 Lunch A cafe a child of maybe 3 or 4 she’s there with grandma she’s tyring to work out how to add ten million and ten million grandma’s got it sussed first she asks “what’s 4 plus 4″ “Eight’ says the child “and what’s fourty plus fourty” “Eighty” says the intelligent child “and [...]

April 24–The back pack    As i pack another set of belongings another mini life time I think of all the journeys we’ve been on how I bought it in 1987 for a trip to Europe that went all wrong because Lee-Anne broke my heart boo hoo shit, that was years ago! Eighty seven Easter [...]

May 6 “Debt to haunt our young” a newspaper headline today a baby’s born but she don’t know what’s coming she’ll have this debt burden hanging around for eternity as we’re bailing out ourselves out of this global finance crisis born from a Frankentstein concept of young bankers in the nineties who thought they were [...]

At the N-Tran there were workmen in luminous uniforms joking behind the toughened glass counter that curves around like the earth from space holding a galaxy of foods skewers with browned chicken waiting for some dipping sauce willingly supplied eggs cut into halves like microbes about to start multiplying Islands of Bacon smokestacks of spring [...]

Returning from Phillip Island Driving in the rain Sky is grey Doing 80 The drops tap on the windscreen Must be cold out side Because the glass is beginning to fog Some meat stuck in my teeth Been annoying me For the last ten miles Been working it around my tongue Trying to get at [...]

April 22 Ford Falcon rounds the corner as I’m waiting to cross a defective muffler that shouts at me as he plants his foot to beat the traffic racing the bridge he doesn’t know just around the bend is a ‘divvy’ van with checkered police eager to test his breath like they did with mine [...]

April 15 a colleague overheard saying “that’s the problem with teenage drinking, a bunch of young girls were flaunting it on a train attracting the attention of drunken uni students zooming in on them f’ in this f’ in that the girls were apparently an ‘insult to the profession’” April 12- Sunday walk Drooping rose [...]

Based on an article I read in ‘Sunday life’ – original story appeared in The Telegraph U.K. I’d been living in Los Angeles since I was seven years old my daddy was a truck driver mama worked the county court when I was 11 they divorced and I started doing some bad things Pretty soon [...]

Down at the bakery, they’re always asking me as they piece together a slice of ham and a sliver of cucumber “sul, pepper, may’naise” no, that’s not a spelling mistake but the way the say it down at the Mihn Trahn They’re exceedingly eager to deliver their question looking up with those puppy dog eyes, [...]