On her credit card,
he bought the cheapest running shoes
from K -Mart.
An d stripped to his underwear
at the bottom of Mt. Cargill
In the path where Leaf Valley started
And shit he could run now
Jumping rivers and overgrown paths
To the end of a treeline
where the tussock started
The city became silent
As its behind soundproofed
Kid teller, this is where
aliens left him
And half -ashamed at his story,
half -beginning to believe it
And this was how it usually started
He felt the blood reach his hands
As the sun rose straight out
of the ocean
Sometimes your life is an
overwhelming vision
More compelling than
any movie
Sometimes there's music behind it
Louder than a dam breaking
Even if most of the time
it doesn't seem written right
You wonder why you have nothing
to show for your twenties
Why you never lived overseas
Or why you spent more time
writing submissions
Than drafting from scenes
Why you can run Mount Cargill,
but you can't break out of this
sleep
When he woke up,
they'd taken his clothes
And moved him to a city
where the sun rose from the south
At first he thought it was
Sydney
They gave him an apart
ment in the tower
Money to live on
And the things he remembered
Became art they could sell
All the four stars were lovers
All became one halfway
The memories of school
led to breakthroughs in science
And from advice we'd been given
They're better
than your religion
Sometimes life is noble while it's vision
More compelling than any movie
Sometimes there's music behind it
Louder than a damn break in