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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

'Petrol' a poem by Lisa Gorton

by Lisa Gorton •
June-July 2004, no. 262

Straight roads, built for driving fast.
You get out of winter in a day.
These paddocks so like thoughts you travel past,
strung out beside your asphalt purpose.

You get out of winter in a day.
Cattle fat as history watch you pass,
strung out and beside your asphalt purpose
in these vast effects of corroded light.

 


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