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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4505 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention a touch of succulence in Barkly Street Frank Faust this would have to be Footscray where else to find the Melbourne Chinese Bible Church but on Barkly Street a laundrette an empty ex-vietnamese eatery and a combination flower shop and coffee parlour of deep blue looks that might have been transplanted from a place altogether more salubrious as suggested by the decorative lounge setting and specimens of local intelligentsia absorbed in gazette gossip surrounded as they sit by bouquets in tin buckets and the smell of incense burning so strong that interloper I am driven out onto the street like an ill-tolerated and poorly reconstructed gauche to sit at varnished plywood on the footpath atop a lumpen sixties-vinyl kitchen chair forced to a straight back like a child at a school desk there are identical parasols visible through the window seen behind a reflection off the plate glass they seem pretty delicacies perhaps chinese more likely the Footscray market my table boasts an electroplated teapot anchored safely in the embrace of an unused ashtray it is a lushness this pouring device succulents reach from the spout and protrude from beneath the lid a small touch of florist on the footpath lest one forget Margharita's next door is closed the hanging sign dates back to my childhood she sold children's wear and gifts once |
