Subtle Plague
By Keri Glastonbury
Published 26 October 2023
everyone's fitting out their suburban palace there's the faux gold coast or the
tuscan pagoda and this from people who once lived in kingswood country or
on farms with tennis court envy your once best friend is now a complaining
house frau at least she's made it into town and is no longer 'stuck out there'
surprised she doesn't remember the perverse magic but perhaps this is what
marks her as authentic and you as vicarious she's become harsh as her
mother the negative 'we'll all be rooned' gossip of keeping up with the
chamberlains who you hear are now landcare mandarins life on their
property was always emblematic but ingratiation between butch and femme
twins amuck in the quiet paddocks is something more stellar than even late
night shopping at the mall back then we mined the duality together the
chiaroscuro kept me split