Settlement

In the Coogee Immigrant Barracks
some arrived
of a time

and history that by view
was more than different

the stories, wars and angers
accounted as negligible in the settlement
"Oh yes, another story, Oh no, that is terrible..."

The histories, well, more the lands of memory
these simplify when they finally merge
accounts and recollections

The certificates, licences and permits
stops rolling. This is our exchange
the by-laws become twin
and in the shadow of settlements
we represented the moorings
that gave light if we talked under these buildings
that arch Roman.

Possibly, we may have talked of fugues,
undigestible discords shared like a quiet meal,
A fare that doesn't equate to media
and mass currency
velvet plates of the generous generating
valuable marble legacies or observing zakat.

Under city shadows sits the bum
talking fare
and memorising timetables for account

Stretching out
the 8.16 did run late and out of timetable order
Commuters think "true! School should come to order"
or "this happens everyday and I've habituated, another redundancy"

The bum is the seat of Parliament as we get to the following station
The train rests short of the platform

to understand shadows have no source construct
or building codes is the delusion of the screen

"Monday 19th November, 2012
there was a fatality on the tracks
near Box Hill, Melbourne. Trains were delayed
and the Metlink Network was thrown into chaos."

That is the account of a day's transit, I remember
"I have to be somewhere..."
was a common thought shared
as Blackburn Station signals processing unit
worked to get through
as we sat in this stopped train.

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