To Roam in Thought Sequestered
by Paul Hall, 20th of April, 1986, Tenant Creek, Australia
Oh, Tenant Creek, your small array of matchbox greets my eyes.
The team work of coercion, it makes one realize
that you, too, are a part of it, the "unit metropol"
that will end up in just a while in city-state control.
For here presents an anger 'twixt you and this red land,
and no recourse or languor could all but understand
to join you and your sisters, or to leave you for all time.
To roam in thought sequestered to search the land for rhyme.
I will not be here long enough to peek beneath your skirts,
nor will a visa pave a way to analyze your flirts.
For I am but an alien come here from foreign shores.
Eastward, then I'm forced to move and travel all the more.
The team work of coercion, it makes one realize...
Copyright (C) 1987 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
...that you, too, are a part of it, the "unit metropol" ...