Month: May 2025

People were yelling, one man was barely standing and looked like he was about to drop dead. It was like the tram was riding to hell and I just wanted to get off, only this wasn’t he’ll, this was Melbourne. People seemed like zombies, some had just finished shopping. A lady with dolls, wearing voodoo mascara was playing at happy families, I looked in the pram at her lifeless baby.

True love waits for me, a New York doll who yells at the traffic, goes left if you say go right. Our bipolar moods, from up in a skyscraper, to down in the park with a pen and paper. She fell in love with this poet, whose heart is a paperweight on an unpublished manuscript. Raindrops in the puddles, kissing and cuddling in the mad huddle. I found out that you can take the girl out of New York, but you can’t take New York out of the girl, whether she’s putting on her make-up or ordering takeaway. I wake up to a sleeping beauty beside me in the big apple. She’s a Cinderella in stilettos.

That’s what the matchmaker in New York city told me, she was eccentric, her grandparents were nudists. I saw the movie Musical minds and I learned about the song they wrote together ’emotional sickness ‘. Once I saw a girl who sang with the voice of Angel but if you looked really close you’d see she had really bad toenails.

Up the alley past the smiling face of Faith Bandler walks a girl with her German Shepherd. There’s cobblestone democracy, troubles at home. The sunlight sugarcoats the sky, the addicts get high. An old man who left his youth in the back seat of a taxi, the truth isn’t sexy. No corruption in the alley, just rusted back fences, no words of a U.S President, no pressed flowers in the pages of a bible, just angry residents, dog shit and feathers.