Little pics of Box Hill

LITTLE PICS OF BOX HILL ( a real place in Victoria, Australia )
Monday 9th February 2004

1. stop…look…and listen…
Two little girls holding hands…
Smiling…
Waiting for the lights to change…
One little girl’s hand held the hand of a man…
Quietly smiling in the shade of his akubra…
He was in a wheelchair…

2. Hecuba…Where are you? OR Nameless Limbo
I visited the dreaded “soup kitchen” today…
Splish and splash………What are they?
Onomatopoeia...
And similes and metaphors………What’s the difference?
Easy!……The captain is like a dog……Simile…
The captain is a dog……Metaphor…
But what if the captain really IS a dog?
Well…I guess…That is just……Fact…
(The English teacher in me glowed with pride and laughter…)
(But the junior chef hadn’t finished with me yet…)
You MUST network……It’s the done thing now…
They get paid to be networkers…so I guess it has to be done…
How many resumes you got?
They’re all school resumes…slight differences…
Every school likes to brew its own recipe…I have 20!!… So far!!!
TAKE ‘EM ALL!!!…Don’t worry about the frown on the network brow…
HAVE FUN!!!

(N.B. “soup kitchen” is a euphemism for Centrelink…the place where the unemployed stagger)

P.S. Ta Robert!!!…By the way…meant to ask you…
Your coffee cup…
Has a saying…
Why is it in German?

3. Stickability…
A film crew…
Small…
Looking like a motley
Bunch of black sticks…
Taking shots of some poor gaudy clown…
(poor because it was a bit hot today for a clown suit)
OUTSIDE
AN ANGUS AND ROBERTSON
BOOKSHOP
WHY???????
WHY???????
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