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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Ghost Train to Australia

‘Ghost Train to Australia’ by Clive James

by Clive James •
April 2008, no. 300

I won’t this time. Silent at last and shunted
Into its siding in the Victorian Arts Centre
The container train started its journey in Yugoslavia
Two years before it arrived in Gippsland
Among trees that echo Albert Namatjira.

 


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