#2348 -- brush with notoriety

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brush with notoriety

 

once I could have run over the skull

 

you might think I should write The Skull

but why give so much credit?

 

Redfern Station, a pedestrian crossing

must have been 1979

one end or the other – I think it was summer

I can’t remember whom he threatened at the time

 

certainly he gave the appearance of a threat

raison d’être, you could say

 

my beetle was a beast of power

the skull was nazi steel

 

did you know that the zebra crossing

was only invented after the war

in which we thought we had defeated the nazis?

 

but here was a nazi in the flesh

 

means, motive, opportunity

there would have been plentiful witnesses

 

it would have spoiled our next adventure

Odysseus Beetle and me, I mean

 

at least some broken limbs though

 

Murdoch would have called me coward

others would get the irony –

machine against fascist, the machine man

 

how often will opportunity knock?

 

I am a weak bastard, I know

 

but it’s just in that split second you have to decide

 

violence is never the answer and yet

you see it all around

 

I’m sure I would have got out long ago

 

it was good not to have made him a nazi martyr

 

it would have been a different life

I’m proud to have had these thoughts

 

I’m not proud of what I did