{"id":4378,"date":"2013-10-27T02:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2013-10-27T02:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:47:43","slug":"in-australia-matt-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/10\/27\/in-australia-matt-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"In Australia || Matt Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Australia<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nPart 1<\/strong>
\n 
\nThe boomerang was on fire
\nSo you threw it
\n 
\nThere\u2019s now a flaming boomerang
\nApproaching you
\n 
\nMuch faster
\nThan you ever like a flaming boomerang
\nTo approach you
\n 
\nYou have just enough time left
\nTo say the name of God
\n 
\nBackwards seven times
\nDog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog
\n 
\nWhen you die
\nYou feel like ice cream
\nSeparated by a warm spoon
\n 
\nYou sound
\nJust like
\n 
\nA dingo, you go
\nAwhoooooooooooooooo
\n 
\n 
\nPart 2<\/strong>
\n 
\nIn Australia
\nWhen you\u2019re hungry
\n 
\nYou eat
\nIn Australia
\n 
\nWhen you\u2019re thirsty
\nYou drink, when you\u2019re tired
\nYou stay awake all night
\n 
\nStaring at the ceiling
\nThinking of nectarines
\n 
\nNot an indigenous fruit
\nBut one you can pick up
\n 
\nAt most grocers
\nAnd markets and places
\nThat sell that kind of thing
\n 
\n 
\nPart 3<\/strong>
\n 
\nOn beach day
\nYou pretend you\u2019re not afraid
\n 
\nOf the sharks
\nPoisonous octopi, jellies
\n 
\nThat might see you
\nFor who you are
\nA born-naked human
\n 
\nSkin scrubbed pink
\nWith a dislocated sponge
\n 
\nYou cross your arms
\nOver your stomach, your chest
\n 
\nPretend to smile
\nSo the Internet will know
\nHow happy you are
\n 
\nHow very happy you are
\nOn beach day
\n 
\nIn Australia
\nYou try not to cry
\n 
\n 
\nPart 4<\/strong>
\n 
\nYour grandfather\u2019s accent
\nLike gargling honey
\n 
\nGoes away
\nWhen he sings in the shower
\n 
\nOr does his De Niro impression
\nAt Christmas dinner
\nHe\u2019s all
\n 
\nAre you talking
\nTo me?
\n 
\nHis hands smell like soap
\nIs supposed to smell
\n 
\nIn commercials
\nCartoon bears and everything
\nYou weep unashamedly
\n 
\nWhen word comes
\nThat the blood built up
\n 
\nA hemorrhaged vessel
\nIn his brain
\n 
\n 
\nPart 5<\/strong>
\n 
\nIf you\u2019re in Australia
\nWhen the world ends
\n 
\nDon\u2019t panic
\nJust dance
\n 
\nJust take a handful
\nOf orange sand
\nIn your mouth
\n 
\nJust walk
\nWaist deep into the ocean
\n 
\nJust say a prayer
\nTo any god at all
\n 
\nGoodbye rocks
\nGoodbye sun
\nGoodbye dingo
\n 
\nChewing off my leg
\nUnder the blood orange moon
\n 
\n 
\nPart 6<\/strong>
\n 
\nI\u2019m filled with blood
\nAnd only blood
\n 
\nBut also mostly phlegm
\nAnd bile and orange desert sand
\n 
\nPouring out of every hole I have
\nBeneath my fingertips
\nInstead of ear wax
\n 
\nWhen they break me open
\nThe cause of death
\n 
\nIs them breaking me open
\nTo determine the cause of death
\n 
\nI\u2019ve got this globe
\nIn a trunk in the attic
\nWith an upside down map of Australia inside
\n 
\nBefore it was a continent
\nIt was the world
\n 
\nAnd every side
\nWas up
\n 
\n 
\nPart 7<\/strong>
\n 
\nYou can never know
\nHow someone really feels
\n 
\nEven in Australia
\nWhether they\u2019re lying to you
\n 
\nOr to themselves
\nWhether they think love
\nDrips like juice
\n 
\nFrom a tangerine
\nOr it\u2019s the hole that\u2019s left
\n 
\nAfter the cannon ball
\nShoots through you
\n 
\nYou\u2019ll wake up one morning
\nYou\u2019ll look over
\nAnd see him and think
\n 
\nI don\u2019t know
\nI really don\u2019t
\n 
\n 
\n___________________
\nMatt Beard<\/strong> is a writer and actor in Chicago. This month one of his plays is being produced in South Korea. He is too poor to attend. He’d love to hear from you whoever you are at mattwestonbeard@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Australia     Part 1   The boomerang was on fire So you threw it   There\u2019s now a flaming boomerang Approaching you   Much faster Than you ever like a flaming boomerang To approach you   You have just enough time left To say the name of God   Backwards seven times Dog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}