Tenant Creek After Midnight
by Paul Hall, 20th of April, 1986, Tenant Creek, Australia.
A dog howls in the distance.
A chill is in the air.
Tenant Creek is silent.
A curious affair.
A road train has come roaring past,
three trailers are in tow.
Two busses, one to south, one north
takes who had to go.
A dog and cat, they cross the road
infinitesimally slow.
A truck with pipes rolls past to north.
Too fast it goes to know
that in the midnight's distance
the local roosters crow.
The baker's busy baking,
car dealer's got no glass
in his showroom windows
as prime movers hustle past.
Main street's the Stuart Highway
although you wouldn't know.
When it hits town it's four lanes wide,
not just a two lane road.
Main street's the Stuart Highway...
Copyright (C) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
A road train has come roaring past, three trailers are in tow.