Coober Pedy

COOBER PEDY


Kupa Piti
Mercy,
Pity.

Coober Pedy:
White-Man's
Hole.

Lone sighbirds 'few'
A crow croaks 'find'
Cockatoos screech 'Fee!'

Anything is for sale.
Buy dust of muscle
for the worm-touch: opal.

Flames of dead seas in
Waterstone, buxom as planets
With big breasts of milkbar.

Where blokedom goes for
The hard lolly flesh and
A divining game of freedom.

But your fever of dig-thirst
Delves deep, comes dear, and
Expends depth-charged waters.

Over brows run hot for another
precious wanting, the Wanting!
That Unearthed Wanting.


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- July 4th, 1995, Cooper Pedy, SA


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Off-road entrance area on the south side of Coober Pedy (with the graffiti of June 1995)