#50 - weep for Holden

19.2.20

50

weep for Holden

it was a way of life once

and shutup in the back

thump wife

how Valiant was Chrysler

if bridge was out

took Ford

football and the meatpies

who’s in the headlights now?

there was a time we wondered

could you pull a plough with it?

and polish for the weekend

just hold the hose a bit

solid as ox and weighs a ton

shiny shiny chrome

and what’s this?

synchromesh

NRMA stripmap

and much arcane besides

the differential sprocket, the overcam

and twin set

by tractor

haul from ditch

a bench seat and a column shift

choke down fresh fumes and weep

who couldn’t see this coming?

when no one works for it

still shops will always mourn themselves

lie down in my backseat lap

dream darling

see trees go by

you tell them from the tops

run the bastards down, says Askin

and o the wipers thrash

for woe of weather

fry eggs on roof

there was a price war

and the ones who lost

were putting the labels on and the tags

the sauce in the bottle

all shake

don’t interrupt your mother

show you the back of my hand

if this car is rockin’

it’s dirt across a continent

and watch it, taking off the cap

don’t get it in the eye

bird hits the window

grasshoppers thick grille

lost it on the backseat

never tell a soul

and who will fume the mountain now?

who will oil the flag?

all weep

a roomy boot for bodies

duck down in the drive-in

Guy Holden dance floor elegant

the Continental does what you want

decades pass and Hitchcock

a banging on the roof

what the fuck was that?

shutup it’s the news

weep governments for it

and here be crocodiles

hey Charger! huh

reverse the fingers

cram cops in a Mini once

tyres balder than religion

it’s something Banjo Patterson

Kirk Douglas in a cameo

lots of convict toil

Australian as General Motors

by paddock rust now gone

gone to a better place

with stockwhip, blanket and Akubra

drunk so bloody much

don’t know how we got home

maybe didn’t

eat my dust

hit the road

weep for Holden

a sacred trust