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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4331 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention a bad week Frank Faust the town was old when I was young had been through many iterations from small pastoral to boom gold and bushranger from public service institution base to centre for visitors who chose to spend their passing time peering over relics of the almost forgotten home was perched right on the beaten track around the corner from an edifice above the vantage for a view and strangers came daily drawn to catch a glimpse to try to bridge the distance in their minds between then and now on foot in car by bus day-trippers all for that was before the township awoke before the profits of encouragement by bed and by breakfast were well understood before the potential return from organisation of diversions had been calculated we youthful anti-heroes resentful ingrates that we were thought them invaders of private ground to be made uncomfortable if possible often I have thought of visiting bali was envious of friends that went but opportunity seemed never to arise I don't feel the same way now and probably I will not visit once my destiny seemed university to be a teacher some subject related to words and to writing them beautiful it will not happen now yesterday a classroom was painted handgun red the second time in a year or so these are no conditions for a love of words and I am grown so very much older my chosen path turned out to be in mental health where so many people do what they can using themselves to make a change to help straighten out distorted thinking last week a woman I knew was slain outside an elevator door a few steps back from lunch nobody knows for sure why she was the chosen one but they put her below ground just yesterday and I don't enjoy my work the way I used to do when I was young and the town was old we didn't like our visitors very much we thought them rubber necks poking over things rightfully ours collectively we named them terrorists and wished them away to bad ends this has been a bad week I meant no malice ~ |
