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the last time I gave my heart to the

Lord was in 1959 I was 16 then I guess I

was in the habit all in all I gave my

heart to the Lord eight times eight and

a half if you count the time I tripped

over a cocker spaniel and had to be

carried from the church with a broken

ankle

then I lost my virginity and I got more

cagey about where I put my ah how often

it wasn't right then actually it was

three years later when I was 19 and one

month old which was the national average

then was a long time ago showing no

we're leaving yeah I'm soaking up it

McCallister's floor it's it's one of

these long I'll just move them out of

his bed hey Mike hunt we're old friends

went to school together in Lismore

nothing you says well this is it okay

that must be the one next door yes all

right

oh all right

ah gets my religion yeah well not

anymore but it's against the religion I

used to have don't think I'll follow

well I'm trying to break things gently

to myself about what the world's really

like oh yeah

I'm glad I'm really glad I met you

yeah yeah it's funny it's the same case

the Vice doors and it doesn't fit maybe

we're in the wrong house I don't know we

got in the front door maybe it's the

wrong room no it's number four look

don't worry

I'm gonna come push cat-burglar I'll fix

it

I really like the room I usually do this

you know

not in the first date yeah that's nice

this isn't it a 30g I hope we finally

because this is the only Keon

McCallister's gonna have to sleep out in

the cold

you know there's one place where we know

the key feeds I'm sobering up I don't

want to do it

good what's wrong really worried about

the mix lighting exhibition gee thanks

what's really nice you were disappointed

weren't you well it was like getting

baptized I mean you're totally immersed

and you come up spitting water expecting

the Holy Spirit to land on you hidden

choirs of angels exalting and then

things just dead still silence and

nothing's happened everything's just as

it was except you're soaking wet

oh thanks thanks very much what's wrong

with you thanks a whole lot did I say

something wrong I think you in some way

please don't see me home Dan will kill

you he's got this 12-bore shotgun and

all these unresolved incestuous feelings

towards me oh well maybe she's getting

gauge them engaged that's not what I had

in mind

ty Romero please driver

what happened to you one man has the

same question

well forgot what number you're looking

in Victoria Street so I'm good I got the

flower in the wrong house and it took

four hours I don't live in Victoria

Street yes you do

no I don't know it's a house in Victoria

Street

does anybody told you lately that you're

hopeless it's something tardy I did get

98 in the end maybe Atlantan test before

I gave it up because I couldn't stay Mrs

Murphy where do you leave nowhere

anymore waited up on the doorstep the

freezing cold will 3 a.m. and Andy

running her cigarettes I rang the

doorbell the landlord came down looked

me up and down ordered me to vacate the

premises big uproarious Hungarian person

740 piece of dyed built like a brick

chef

I mean well this is our like my humble

view we've fucked and far from home 500

miles thanks for breakfast I'm beginning

to appreciate Lismore house showing so

much year 5 and 6 spent the rest on

Black Label champagne did you don't

drink yeah maybe I should take it up

MacAlister and i had this special

relationship

I helped him burn his poems he

shoplifted I cooked I gave him half my

earnings as a part-time cat I let him

eat my chips in the Union refectory at

Sydney University we didn't get on all

that well I decided in retrospect

somehow that night there we were

country boys in the big city looking for

a warm dry life and place in vain and a

bed for the night and sleep

we fetched up at long last one of the

places we used to go to you sleeping

rough round Sydney the big Roman column

which was also the Bondi sewer outlet

under it played again some games we had

left over for a war - and embarked again

on an agent conversation we've been

gnawing away since we were 10 what's it

all about McAllister no stars up there

are fools like us on their own bondo

Golf Links they're looking up and up and

saying what's it all about McAllister

I don't know I'm an atheist I believe in

mathematical probability with film birth

I believe in Robert Mitchum triggered

fan the Living God Phil said is Today

Tomorrow forever from apart not

believing me

hardly adds up to a theology yeah I know

what is needed in the modern age is not

so much a theology as a plan of attack

gee if we know I did one of them just

flames Sam yeah

before the not info missile it isn't a

godless universe I'm sir I'm reliably

informed think that give us some kind of

warning before a whole world ends maybe

they do you know Jurong you who's your

real Superman's father yeah

Oh

we've got sleep in the office tonight

Google the staff club again on Saturday

yeah you're very Mecosta still no around

yeah think I miss all that

look you were a virgin until quite

recently you must remember how rotten it

was 14 hours ago yes

worse wasn't it oh well

hello I'd like to work on a lease for

the University newspaper knockin

features editor I'm Jamie O'Brien

pleased to meet you

you wanna fuck ah no but I'd quite enjoy

a cup of coffee I think people should be

open about these things

thank you no no I don't but I was very

well brought up

oh well well soon knock that out of you

I mean you're very confident aren't you

I mean since this morning I'm very tired

and when you're very tired you say what

you think

we could go to the truth they Phil

Johnson Jim yes

five o'clock session

it's time to fool around after what

wouldn't after yeah we get the bus we

could get before 3:00 I pass I could

drive us if you like

so probably like no daddy says we having

any money at all

Oh

by nutrition that they need

I like you but if anything's going to

happen it's got to be my own decision in

my own time yeah I'm very impatient I

mean the end of the world is nigh

extremely neither

there are signs and portents

yeah climb up the drainpipe sleep on the

floor McAllister when we're between

marchings Ted McAllister the poet

yeah well the banning versa fire I love

his stuff yeah

I think you're a very interesting person

good night

am I

all right look get irregular eyes your

habits losing weight did you she's

terrific this one even Richard manana

you have my warmest congratulations

yeah you don't think I might have six

student McAlister yes you could be right

perhaps our voice was

the sisters fathers pastor Anderson

thanks yeah

you're English

nobody else had those big complexions

yeah I've got skin like that wouldn't

mind it

Vince girls get married at 16 and I want

to see the world first

Bri spinner James used to kill only my

cousin Thelma yeah in the greenhouse

we've got cool

did you bring up against the teeth must

be deformed well who'd you kiss cousin

Thelma down the green house Sunday and

old brethren time is short the Good Book

says he know not the day nor the hour

justice was prophesied knowledge shall

be increased men run to and fro

television jet air travel the atomic

bomb why there is even a move to open

the pub

so 10 o clock at night the signs of the

time sister the signs of the times and

heresy why heresy is everywhere the

Jehovah's Witnesses have doubled their

numbers in New South Wales in only three

years by breed like rabbits that's right

brother Ellison but heresy breeds faster

than rabbits and Alwyn who death the

shepherds robbed once an honored member

of our church in Coffs Harbour now

unlost so doomed by God's gentlemen to

thrash and rise and scream forever in

the great lake of fire wickedness

abounds and the time of God's coming is

near

I can L control is more hi mr. Anderson

this is my sister Sarah nice here

this is wailing Gibson sir I you spell

it with an SAR a I come again so lovely

nice thank you wait from Liz more yes

you said I'm deputy you Slater thee oh

really

ah we just wanted to tell you how much

we enjoyed your father's sermon and

appreciated it Oh giggling all the way

through not three the good beats which

were they what about the rabbits you're

from England oh yeah yes we came out

four years ago

I'm the orchid ease warm enough for you

over here yes good well we'd better be

going to bed

what on earth were you doing I think

late don't you know what time it is

girl you're too young to be writing

notice two girls put the light out your

burners down

leather six years said it amount of the

pictures I'll give up comics for six

months if you make a seat with me at the

beaches though I speak with the tongues

of men and of angels and have not love

and and become as sounding brass or a

tinkling because you know first signing

off now bless mom and dad and Graham and

he ate and uncle Claude and barium

Island Gibson pigmentosa bring him to

your truth he's a good soul really

integrates Ambala

Jesus sick

will you say Amen for me alright and a

questions in in Matthew 24:34 it says

verily I say unto you this generation

shall not pass till all these things be

fulfilled and he's prophesying a 10 last

place in the end of the world

yes brother white question well that

generation has all passed they're all

dead aren't they I mean the whole bang a

lot of them so are you implying brother

now Lord was mistaken no I just mean

that if all the Bible's true and we

believe that and this is not true well

it makes the whole thing so go on

brother speak out the sin in your heart

no no no it's just a question enough I

think there should be an answer in there

how do you know brother that there may

not still be a 2000 year old man on the

jungles of Sumatra living today stranger

things have happened

yeah well they could be and if only one

such man has survived that generation

has not passed I think that's good

enough he doesn't think that's good

enough is it good enough for you then

it's good enough for me will you say

Amen for me beware heresy my dear young

brother it's an easy trap ever open

waiting next question

what's wrong it's a beautiful later

thank you I don't think I ever could

why not I look at you and I don't think

you're a true Adventist you have a

doubts I could learn to overcome them

really if you could find it in your

heart to help me know it's your struggle

you must ask God for help

well with me on the pictures on Saturday

pick me up something Billy teenie he

drinks like a fish it's quite a struggle

how'd you do no good at all sir I won't

sit with me either

a tough fear yeah funny species all

right I had this story where they could

blow smoke rings through their Queens

right what I want to do that for all a

day I ponder the question of women my

dad reckoned out all bloodsuckers and

you saw them standing outside the church

at every wedding rubbing their hands and

snickering here comes another poor mug

into our clutches but I certainly had

their attractions

so ship its right couldn't be when there

would he think he would he's pregame

that's him all right look he's only got

one hand he said the adventists cut it

off and fed it to the dogs

I don't know hey - pretty funny mob down

coughs either way I'm gonna call it ten

days just a camp loss that wall yeah

well it's two million Adventists I'm on

really I put it on the index Wow

what we put in it six violence bless me

novel ratings has seen anyway is

according to mrs. what our founding

prophet is does that include Biggles

reckon of course it does hmm

I've always heard the side to you but

one day that in business my mission

where they can look at the facts

they decide to look at me some ways sort

of playing for the cameras they want to

look at you I don't know they might why

you I'm gonna give them reasons to I'm

gonna be a great novelist movie director

Test cricketer what do you want to be

when you got greatest man who ever lived

yeah same spit right musical knees

laughs the pleasure of this Breck

over there dancing isn't it there's no

Dancing's a sin God climbed me it's not

us get off the floor

hmm who said that whoever said that get

off the floor immediately you do

something if I ask you

yeah sure anything later quicker on

whatever you say

would you mind another liter okay

I thought this was my kid it's a later

phase - is it gone

you're a really lucky in that dress

gone

for three whole days the rider was on

that bucking Brumby and at the end of

the fourth day something flew off and a

bystander simply with a Dibley and the

owner said no that was his brand he

backed off his brand but Dibley was

still there

thank you brother and we must hold on to

the faith as surely as I held on for

those four terrible days for brethren

the great tempter is ever at the door

who tells the Shepherd's rod himself

encounter his infamous Caliban yay

verily in the vacant lot across the road

a mere 100 yards from where I stand and

the Lord presides

and sisters the Lord enjoins us against

all violence even unto who death must we

turn the other cheek show courtesy and

civility but never let his evil doctrine

into our hearts

young brother

elke I understand that you have been

writing letters to my daughter mr. C

well what have you got to say for

yourself might happen again sir

she thinks you're funny anyway hmm

decided much the same when I was young

but not as young as you head tonight

gets here as I married the girl I've

heard about you young hooking your your

colorful young people's meetings your

questions from the floor your doubts

about the Trinity well Jacob wrestled

with the angel too soon he turned out

alright father of the chosen people hmm

you can write letters to my daughter if

you want to but I would prefer it if you

did not deliver them in person or

perhaps it would be better if you wrote

them to the whole family yes sir if you

wish I write a very good letter

just not good enough even ones a heaven

full of seventh-day adventists the other

end of the court drink dance crank out

of the pictures can't gamble can't eat

prawns can't tell a joke unless it has a

moral purpose it's not good enough or

can dad was right I see a day when young

people of all persuasions can go to the

Saturday dance I see a day when a godly

person he wants to can either licorice

strap or a freddo frog and not feel

guilty I'm just curious would smart

don't you think you must pay for

everything we're not pretty this might

be a mistake we've been putting off all

the good things we could have been doing

before we died it's cuz this stupid

bitch got hit on the head and started

having visions yes I have trying to

shape what's wrong I have you tried the

Catholics all that sounds okay way there

it all makes sense they all found out

there making says they might all be

wrong all of them you tried to ship it

to rot yes what are you saying luck very

convincing

cavitus

I see a day when a woman will love a man

for his you know

not for how he looks but for who he is

did you say buggerin yes ma'am

you mind your mouth young man I'll wash

it out with soap yes

morning

is anything wrong I think I saw the

beautiful big dream oh uh I just thought

I'd come in early and learn a few things

before my first lecture this is the rich

one is it yeah I really like your poetry

it's ease off spin he's a very talented

man it's all part of the same gift

really mathematical strategic precision

oh I see she can stay

first off the fresh pink one spill at

first but it gets better

yes I know my father's a newspaperman oh

that oh god yes indeed coffee which

shineth in your article on barry

goldwater you employ the word bullshit

I've had anguish conference with a

distraught printer and my fellow

directors when we decided almost

unanimously the dust history will judge

you harshly Kevin are stiffing myself

against Ed eventualities

that's a hard world we live in young

Alcon but it's the only one there is

history is watching

what do you think of me I think you're

very improbable I thought I was down

with a boring I think you fear you are

but you don't have to it's good and I

think you need looking after

ken yes I've been thinking what about

about my own good time you know time's

up you reckon thought oh well Em's the

world you know extremely nice

I've decided well we better secure some

accommodation yes unless you prefer the

office floor are we doing

I can appointment yes

well have in the past

miss bounty no nineteen that's the

national average that's me

so funny better because she teased know

my face that you've got an excuse of you

really

Dave Mackay nah this is all servants

quarters

Tippett entrances locks my territory

but that was once upon a time

once upon a time

Oh

it's good exercise

go swimming instead what is your Colin

city I come from a temperate climate you

you angry with me

yes yes yes it's mommy and daddy's

anniversary party daddy are you alright

Jeanne I love you you too

mr. prime good night sir I can't stay

got to get a newspaper yes

really good my self up how do you do

that

I think we put the collide

it's nothing serious it's just holding

the loins you know just another girl

just graces three times

we reach for you and the court of louis

xiii

so sorry

and you're being ridiculous well I'm not

yes

oh come on it's gotta be around here

someplace we supposed to be having a

picnic we haven't got it dear Ken I've

been thinking things through this past

week and I've decided we shouldn't see

each other for a while I know I could go

steady with you or whatever the phrase

is for the rest of my life but I'm not

sure I should I won't be coming in to a

nice fire anymore and if we do run into

each other in the quad I'd rather we

didn't speak I want to sort out my

priorities that's all I still sort of

love you but I don't think I want to see

you if that makes any sense you'll be

pleased to hear I've been at long last

pronounced free of the clap I wish you

equal fortune you're sincerely Jenny

O'Brien

now let's got him a drink

you don't drink three minutes until he

spills no gas song and a grilled cheese

I'm toast

no no I said yourself was forever

Rosalie

you've always had a distorted idea when

it's your view is it yeah I was thinking

the souls to conquer you should let him

be like campaign yes the way you were

brought out the end of the world is mine

you have a will she lay off are you off

but I love her but I might get hit by a

bus tomorrow will die of terminal

sickness fall out a third-story window

eventually you'll have to face the

terrible possibility that you might live

to be 90 my planes how can anyone live

like them listen it's very simple she

shot through and I'm gonna get it back

you treated like some converted soul

how dare she banks but I love it can't

lay off on when you love them that's

right you're glad you did man you must

be out of your mind

I stepped horse excuse

hey mommy a cup of coffee no I think

your little mad can I think you need

help

see that's my thing I don't think so you

please let me go

just leave the lady alone son okay

here's one with the 20th century in

jails and proof walk we see the ordinary

post-christian wallet humanity

if dirty dicks sloppy joes we drank on

Durga's straight some went upstairs with

Marjorie and some are less with and two

by two like cat and mouse the homeless

played at keeping house won't he make

the sailors friend of Mary our open

their arms that I refused to step inside

I was not looking for a cage that's cool

I like that

w insure him wise man from 30-day

fuckers I was brought up a cannibal now

I wait for the ABC I'm a radio announcer

you just remind you for good old days

naked savages Tom coming around the fire

no no but it is good to remember those

things to say Mary Miller quickly said

probably used to

what is wrong nightingales are sobbing

in the orchards of our mothers in the

hearts that we broke long term have long

been breaking others

tears are round sees all and overboard

last night your face came to me in a

dream it's really the Queen's God gives

us our purpose but we have to okay it is

you isn't it yeah it's not my name

anymore a professional name's sinnamon

entertainer entertainer economy thing

for sure so what happened you

I'm a university student second year

exams in three weeks for a second time

it's pretty thick you stripping here

yeah pretty hard Yakka no I'm the one

after next what a person yeah thought

you might

being Merrill do Iraq may be uncertain

as to whether she wasn't better off back

in church

not that she could in advance not that

she wasn't happy in her own way

I think all of us are more or less

equally happy whatever we do in life

there's a sort of flimsy line and we

don't go above or below it most of the

time I had it away with her of course it

was a historical inevitability in anyway

I was drunk with Randy far from home no

reason

yeah voice my creaks your money they

have a gentleman slide on down the

Caterine slight one of it Jim Devils Wow

I thought Borderlands Thomas strain

mmm

as yours okay got home for holidays

brother and me to be on the church steps

and says that was the battle going

brother half times with a try

if you didn't charge me for old times

sake the old times we never had I now

regret not having but I had to leave

early because her pimp was coming back I

never saw her again

someone killed her a year later choked

her to death in flagrante

once more I missed out on something that

would have been good with someone I

should have got to know better

McAllister used to call them witnesses

people who knew you when who were

irreplaceable and you have to seek them

out I didn't seek her out I had other

fool things on my mind

I paid your bail

Thanks I came all the way down on a

train from Armidale to pay your bail I

emphasize that yes sorry I calles the

rainy Jesus brokers you I'm I'm the only

one that's not so governor train because

I'm a good friend in spite of everything

yeah

yeah you are well explain yourself that

was sleeping a window soldier now how

did it into climbing and rape the girl I

love

oh and we wanted to feel the need to

write this later

well a florida makers see sense right I

was wrong

bring out drinking alcohol how'd you all

wait hitting on a done steak to write a

city boy stirs natural unknown sinful

effort is yet became a because I worry

about you you can get five years and all

this tripe you're right in the honey

swatch Jesus Christ was a homosexual

runes on the beloved I mean really deep

if you were legal evil oh yeah well

suppose either beloved the disciple whom

Jesus loved what else does it mean you

were really on the downhill slide Devils

gunning to me you reckon cotton oh come

on we gotta go see a lawyer he's really

good you'll get now can I put it to

gently that if you're under the

impression only the impression that the

young lady in question wanted to have

sexual congress with you on that

particular night in that particular

bedroom and the gate moreover was open

was the gate open okay I don't remember

I'm not asking you to fill so that your

testimony in any way but if the gate was

open and the gate moreover was open

your worship the defendant will stop

eating grapes and projecting the pips at

prosecution counsel your worship may

counsel approach the bench is that

agreeable to you mr. cabman certainly it

was and to your grep Everest glass eye

defendant of the bar

I was thereupon commanded to keep away

from Jenny on pain of being hung drawn

and quartered or something I was tired

frightened and far from home and agreed

am i hard what minute then we went to

the pub

well respectfully concluded you sure you

don't want a drink

yeah I'm sure really lemon squash maps

that something

that's been nice to see her

I'll be frank quick no thanks house

happy though

what's all right I'm still waiting on

tables getting pretty time I had her up

in second here you see anything a sir

I'll yes sir

yeah sorry is still in armored our still

see you sometimes Podesta she went to

Tasmania she gonna be funny in the head

now she's teaching kindergarten

I'll sing Christmas at the bait

so how are you this evening

Walter look lovely I mean revolt against

Authority however many young men are

with good cause

young in a passionate they must say they

say how Idina you're a cannibal yes the

certain wisdom is randomly it's very

good sometimes to come into real life

from an unusual angle you see things

clearly yeah I didn't know what you mean

what do you see me clearly

lots of hypocrisy of women their

teaching of English from literature at

university level is what it's like the

seventh-day adventists interpreting the

Book of Ezekiel what did the author

Jehovah mean by this myth for here and I

know governor beats me sangeeta am beat

it's a lean wasted years knocking on

people's doors from the age of 18

Sharlee mentioning the end of the world

is not sorry we're Catholics ed saying

close the door on top of that English

literature is like playing the bagpipes

to sheer waste understand you in good

stead in your chosen career yeah

what do you see mommy futility of career

like you you prefer to sit under a

coconut tree be stoked on kava picking

your teeth with somebody else's finger I

dunno you must be career is everything

achieved man is everything man is a

challenge seeking animals you don't deny

them I only remark on this futility what

are you gonna be when you grow up

greatest manner with a lift and they

were dyed you mean deaf makes it all

pointless

don't you see just that tropical lie

about this we'll send up a couple of

missionaries all soon sort you air oh

yes seventh-day Adventists I remember

them

l can we're getting a divorce

oh why it's time you grew up and I'm

damn sure you won't

after years of revolting intimacy brain

numbing contortions of needless belief

I've decided to beyond hope

fight for me my caste all either uni

rational people are asking me for you

also a rapist as a child after we've met

upon reflection you probably work well

just that one night apart from which

I've been offered a room rent-free by

rich patroness of ERT thinks I'm a poet

all right

she'll pull the wool out of her ass

see

my world seemed to be falling apart my

best maid at school and my best mate at

church didn't like me anymore

I was prevented by court order from

raping the girl I loved and reduced to

having philosophical conversations in a

strip joint with a cannibal on the sofa

room and with some money mum got from

selling her old car I put a down payment

on a television set which in turn became

the author of my doom and a tape

recorder on which I practiced my

Laurence Olivier imitation I went about

discontent made glorious summer by this

son of DOC all ships of any kind bound

for Cuba from whatever nation or port

I spent long nights on the lounge room

floor chewing methedrine which we all

did in those days while studying for

exams and grinding my teeth which was

the byproduct of the same drug later

known as speed as never before to move

forward it stand tall and move sideways

and stand tall on the frontier of

necessity in a twilight of desire to

heed the command of Isaiah to go to the

humble cockroach and seek his advice ask

not what you can do for pretty girls now

your own core is dead ask what pretty

girls can do for you and how often and

what in their view it's the ultimate

cost sometimes in waking dreams there

were certain events that came back into

my mind from that fateful seventh day

adventists

camp in 1956 and furthermore in ezekiel

35 8 you see now will fill his mountains

but his slain men and in thy heels and

in high valleys and in all thy rivers

shall they fall and that's we received

the word on the first day of the ninth

month cripes it's right so that means

okay the seventh-day Adventist will be

wiped out on September the first in the

mountain where they dwell the campground

it will be a very of dry bones

that's next Saturday no so time is short

you must make a commitment now before

the Lord come it's like a thief in the

night with power and great glory and

watch the destruction from across the

road look I'll come back in the morning

alright I'm gonna be bonkers and he's

gotta be made theorists I write this

under the horrific share of the

probability of the knowledge that I'm

writing to you of my feelings for you

for the last time on this earth what it

says so much about what you mean - man

what unending happiness it's lasted a

few days and I'd like a can of Netflix

and if you got enough chicken you know

we're out of not chicken box Turkey no

the world looked just the same I

couldn't believe it was coming to me

maybe it wasn't but it'll write it up

last chance in the world

no sorry

in the end I just couldn't run out on my

own people for a joker with one arm a

dish mop and a magpie on his roof

however spot on he might have been which

I truly suspected he was mourning yeah

yeah possibly

tell me did you ever go to church school

no I didn't quite right to advise your

mother not to send you there on the

ground that it would rot your mind you

know no thanks I never went look at me

president of the Australasian communion

I think you have a good mind to young

Elkin and God has a purpose for it

he'll let you know what it is faster

deeply man

did you really stone that horse for five

days yeah it was just a dramatic effect

the week moved in eggs durably towards

Saturday I felt very alone I kept a

straight face through my remaining days

on this troubled planet and tried to

enjoy myself but the old pleasures

didn't seem the same thou Lord who

knoweth all things because thou wert a

man thyself and did suffer even as we do

something

yay even a toothache probably Lord look

down upon us with thy mercy what

eighteen and sixth circuit's of them

that don't sound much like since I'll

tell you what you best keep Albert you

give me the odd eighteenpence this would

be on the stage yeah but being on the

stage is a sin my father was a musical

the flow is converted get away luck you

saw the light few papers sister white

says it's a sin to tell a joke with no

moral purpose just to raise enough yeah

have y'all beat say that lots of things

you mustn't do out there when you sit

with me Saturday yes but I won't hold

him

not before you engaged or kiss before

you marry that's right that never

happened you reckon never happen again

no no what's wrong with you it's it's a

free country isn't it well will you sit

with me Saturday

I want you to get up out of your seat

every man-jack off you for tiny joy and

out of your seats for time is fleeting

the Son of man cometh like a thief in

the night and you know about the hour

when the son of man cometh hip hop that

of your seats wood is nigh oh yes the

day is high the clear blue sky and on a

cloud no bigger than a man's hand

strange I thought I was in gold on the

Lord he's risen

raise the Lord praise the Lord

let the earth hear his boys worry Jim up

its the Lords will miss you all

well we're for it you reckon yep

tomorrow will be all of us did like

flies it's in Ezekiel what you like to

join our visit

oh yeah it's to like started well it's

our last night on earth how do you

reckon the order spender let's rifle the

wingman

what let's rape all the women all of

them

what do you may not I'll hold him down

what we want right two of them yeah yeah

that's right

on the last night of the world then our

wonder fired act one last rage against

the dying of the light was to change the

laboratory signs around and write up

some rude graffiti and go quite early to

bed I tried to write up my diary for you

know posterity what it was like to be

one who knew the end had come but I soon

dozed off and mum turned off the life

no one died the next day or the next

they took up the collection and that

night I said well Esther at the pictures

we are certain de Bruyne me a good seven

go go ahead other blokes old bugger up

me a said and a boy

this man had two wives before God's

light came into his life he had to

choose which one to send away he said it

made him sad but God's will must be done

this is his second her name is mom to

them all he knows

did you do that for didn't show respect

that's what I said I wouldn't do what

sister white says we mustn't do you're

not really Christian don't think I

should sit with you again well next year

maybe no not ever

right yeah no can't stop me

are they old sport as you go Sarah

terrific we've just been there kissing

around the corner geez can't pick him

Kenya I mean he choked up the armadale

next Christmas

see you sir I did good with you

committed a mortal sin

what when the gravedigger some don't

like it should right there neither

chance I think we ought to figure B even

thought of that all right if you can't

why forget anything I think we ought to

decide something's just didn't happen

okay didn't happen

didn't happen you you're all flaming mad

you have this fantasy like I live in the

real world see you next year

okay bye

don't take it out on me okay and so the

two beautiful sisters walked away out of

my life I wrote to Esther for the next

two years and she wrote primly back to

me and the next year at camp she sat

with Allen Rawlins and the pictures a

good clean Christian boy

whose dad was also a minister and the

next year she didn't come because she

was in the loony bin for a while I

watched her walk away and knew how much

I had lost by taking her hand being a

seventh-day adventists was hard but it

was kind of fair they quickly sorted out

the ones they couldn't trust like Meryl

and me branded us with the Mark of Cain

and sent us wandering fugitive sinners

through the Land of Nod for all our days

at dawn next day after his long

all-night vigil the Shepherd's rod

packed up his gear and drove south he

drove to a green hill near cost Harbor

one that he used to run on as a kid

he walked for half a mile down long

trodden paths towards the sea and on a

rocky headland he used to pray on when

he was a troubled kid like me he blew

his head off he was a true believer you

see he truly believed

the next day the camp packed up and we

all went home that afternoon I went to

see Deb in Lismore Base Hospital

doing his deathbed scene though he lived

for 20 more years they've never missed

an opportunity to be memorable an

adequate definition of love and I found

it yesterday when a reader's digest the

nice brought to me and what could have

been the last hour of me life it's this

fullness of response yes it's good it's

not only good it is sufficient our young

yokomen although we speak with the

tongues of men and of angels and have

not that fullness of response we're not

worth to you understand

yesterday good

a good man positively thank you my boy

within the past week unmistakable

evidence has established the fact that a

series of offensive missile sites is now

in preparation on that imprisoned Island

acting therefore the defense of our own

security and of the entire Western

Hemisphere in denied the second

denominator

hello Ken yeah I can't talk to you now

yes you can

what's there to talk about yeah what do

you think about Cuba yes it's terrible

isn't it the end of the world isn't I

come over where are you

Whaley 50y strict led to you left a pair

of socks behind yeah I was just dreaming

about you just did are you yes you're a

lot nicer in dreams than you are in real

life

yeah well come on over

no it's a big line in the papers this

morning the Russian down out of Cuba by

the in a time kike what I can't see you

Ken of course you can there's a court on

this phone call I didn't mean that to

happen

yeah well somehow you could have stopped

it was daddy he was very angry he

believes in the sanctity of private

property including you maybe I could

come over for an hour I've got a lecture

at 10:00

I'll see you in 20 minutes

this is miss I can touch I know where

everything is this way accessible at the

leftover food okay

joining coffee or what some some oyster

I've got some oysters No

mr. what no summer both people I'm a

doubt anybody in particular

mommy's been matchmaking she wants me to

marry Kerry Packer

don't decide should I marry

yeah in the seventh-day adventists well

Christ comes back sharp sword and raises

all the righteous did

thanks love to heaven Christmas I stand

on a safe glass before the throne of God

sing a song that under your lip did God

cannot then Jerusalem comes back dress

and the wicked are all set cast and were

like a fire which cleanses us and turns

it into a beautiful green place the

throne of God the elephant the lion lays

down with the lamb no happily ever after

you stay with me today

at last

she lay there in my arms through the

long warm moon sometimes moving nearer

turning smiling in her sleep her breath

was the purest Pepsodent i watched with

burning eyes and grinding teeth and took

another methedrine so as to be all

bright and witty again when she woke up

why one o'clock my mind was running far

ahead of me I developed a desire to get

in some provisions for the impending

atomic attack it's not true Catholic

Catholic doesn't commit suicide he'll be

all right

he'll be in his concrete bunker drinking

champagne

I couldn't believe it Sydney had to be

the prime target area in the southern

hemisphere and everyone was sustained

portable exactly the kind of place they

bombed showing in business

I walked down familiar streets for an

hour and then other streets I saw people

walking shopping I saw things very

clearly and then I knew what I must do

look move go West miles waste away from

the fall oh dear what's wrong I haven't

done my essay is it so soon as your

priorities woman concentrate I don't

like this it feels like money arms

control yourself it's a reasonable

precaution

hang on we've got to see McAllister what

McAllister he's a friend we had this

appointment at 7:30 to watch a Bob

Mitchum movie man with a gun

have you got a roadmap No

hang on ins down here I think no it's

not

Callister hang on no I just watched his

third shot of the riding into terrible

touch a cup of coffee you know we're

going to the mountains in case the city

gets hurt amide bond please come with us

that's a great beach a movie she's best

performance it's true this obsession

with Bob Mitchum McAlister there are

greater things at stake the survival of

poetry as an art form and devastated

continent I think I've seen you in one

of these moods before gee I really hate

your place

listen it's free and she's a nice lady

look you're pairing kind I won't dignify

that she like some coffee genuine tea

d please dad teabags and the Thomas

Aquinas Thomas Aquinas teabags my all

views of the world are worth at least

considering had that before

even those of Nostradamus that's a cruel

thrust as recently as the Suez Crisis of

1956 you saw a Nostradamus proof of the

worlds it was a reasonable mistake has

you done this before

oh yes by turning the tap you'll get

water it's the latest modern invention

but I fall in the water you'll get see

what am I making pay for the end of the

world is nigh and do you mean that

sincerely

absolutely Jenny don't listen to this

elite social-climbing presbyterian I

really liked your poem spring Hale now

listen the water in the jug

let us what's this gunfire it's like

Japanese belly MacAlister it's nine

o'clock

I don't like Japanese ballet and there

are ships moving towards each other in

the Caribbean Sea this is lovely

nuclear submarines Mitchum's really got

something and that's all I'm gonna do a

sequence of Eddie's implications here

abductors pterodactyls for all I care

I'm leaving we're leaving

speak for yourself I'd like to watch the

end of the movie no come on now a

Callister it's fruitless to say a bitten

and desirable to pronounce it correctly

forever and forever farewell Brutus if

you meet again

then we shall smile if not why then this

party was rolling you took the words

right out of my mouth what do you mean

you're a fucking idiot

you're not that dungeon baby

it's something wrong with you shut up

and light me a cigarette you push that

thing down there

but you don't smoke I started again

we drove on up through the calm spring

night towards Kitumba

I felt very heroic very much in love

what a crumble bar

no thanks hey there's no radio in this

car no daddy said he needed his thinking

time

the street lamps in the suburbs receded

behind us I thought of all the good days

I had had on the cricket field today

McAllister got his hat track my triumph

is bottom in our cut down high school

version of Midsummer Night's Dream the

long afternoons riding home of Whelan

and McAlister talking about teachers and

lard and girls my young people's meeting

about the Shroud of Turin and how the

resurrection was thereby proved with the

aid of modern science I thought of the

life ahead with Jenny and her Jaguar

radiator driving west hopping blood

getting married in Burke or Broken Hill

it felt very good somehow

I must have dozed off I remember the

methedrine lights on the back of my

eyelids when I woke up the car was

stopped and Jenny was on the verge of

crying what's happy

that's King's College Parramatta

Johnnie's there my brother

why do you ring your father yes maybe

once your father in the place yes

let's go on I began to wonder if I was

driving less with the wrong girl

she was markedly different in her mood

from how she was that afternoon in bed I

thought of her submission to her

father's desire to have me put in you Jo

I thought of rich girls in general their

fickleness and passion for transitory

thrills could I this long night be like

that now to her

on the mountaintop at a scenic lookout

with a handy view of the mushroom cloud

over Sydney we made love I changed my

mind

I knew she loved me and we were destined

for this moment you do it better than

anyone else' sippy a couple sins are you

angry I think it makes me more excited

good

vaguely over my shoulder I was waiting

for an explosion that will wipe away the

old world as I made love again it's

easier when you're 19

I found myself growing impatient what

did you think we're ready here my father

went in at d-day with the first wave he

was a war correspondent he went all the

way with the 8th army to the Elbe linked

up at the Elbe he I didn't get to know

him better yes it is

he wasn't afraid of a big war

I didn't know

seven about the wall what war we're in

Cuba

Dina Conan in a ballistic missiles and

then ships heading towards one another

beats me mate

around with ago I realized it wasn't

going to happen it was good news I guess

we could go back to Sydney and do our

exams get on with our careers get

married there suddenly that didn't seem

like a guy It was as though we were

tuned up for the end of the world and

nothing else wouldn't do it all

I'm not sure if it was the loss of his

daughter or the loss of his Jagua that

annoy data Brian the most there was a

rough night overall

are you playing fine

I was first charged with kidnapping and

then car theft and then driving without

a license but Jenny said that was all

wrong and in the end they let me go with

extreme bad grace I rang up Jenny and

asked if she'd marry me she said she

think about it I never heard from her

again I saw her across the room at the

exams but then she got away and the next

thing I heard she was on a world trip

with her mother I started going to

parties now there are other girls in the

world what's about then just return as

it was and a spirit shall return

auntie auntie save the preacher

I went north on the train to armoured I

obviously whale and Mary survived she

was a nursing sister already and

supporting him while he finished college

it was strange being welcomed there as

the pen friend of their crazy daughter

these were my own people I felt at home

and not at home at the same time I

wasn't one of them anymore but I should

have been hello mr. Elkin yes Thornton

you've gone crazy I'm better now

no this breakdance I don't know things

everything

where are you teaching you has mania but

I'm new things are Sydney in January

you thinking

I should have died when I tried

don't do this again

if you would do

did you keep my business

one Sunday soon after that I got a fall

from Macalester and you spent the Sunday

together the way we used to

I burgled the staff club when we got in

drank wine and ate cheese and Jats

crackers and talked long hours in our

old companionable way eventually

McCallister's said My dear chap do you

the first day of the period from the

first days of period why do you ask

well oh no that's all it's only the 13th

day 13th day what's right isn't in the

girl no yes I think she did funny

Twilight came down over the quadrangle

by a coincidence we found a

contraceptive on the flagstones and we

blew it up and tied it off like a

balloon and chased it all over the

quadrangle hitting at it with sticks it

was the last day of McCallister's youth

it was just another day of mine some of

us hang on to our childhood longer some

of us give it up willingly I don't know

who is the wise

I think it came down to how McAllister

was better behaved than I was that was

where the Presbyterians had it over the

adventists when they came down to the

big city the Adventists by contrast had

this problem of fullness of response I

don't think I ever got over

we did know what I want your thought I

can feel you really there I can't say

anything I am Alpha and Omega the

beginning and the end man comes to the

Father but by me it's easy for you to

say we were both brought up in primitive

religions I can be a comfort sometimes

back if I could see wait wait you will

see

wasted and wounded I waited out the next

15 years but the disease got worse I

fell in love eight times I went to war I

got fired from four newspapers on points

of principle fought with collaborators

and producers addressed political

rallies lost friends lost hope regained

never attempted suicide never fulfilled

the potential that Dibley finally dying

said I became that kind of weekly

columnist you love to hate chaste women

grew older neglected my teeth turned 40

it happened fairly quickly all of it and

there I was two weeks after my birthday

I was eating at the Opera House

oh hi sorry happy happy birthday

you two sit down oh yeah of course

Esther's still in salon in the leper

colony she's lost weight system yeah a

couple of fingers her nose don't say

that it's bad luck

so how's your wife and kids great right

you prefer to eat without them well I

write a lot of cafes this apply at my

nan yeah oh can I buy you a drink

yes you can

so well what happened well don't you

know how mrs. white is supposed to be

inspired by God

yeah I turned out half of what she wrote

was copied off other people other

writers that much couldn't have been

inspired could it and she said it was

my old bitch say the whole church is

falling apart we left two months ago

we're trying to catch up on wine and

things like that you done I appreciate

your advice anytime geez

well it's a long way from Gunilla bar

campground yeah everyone else believes

in the end of the world now

Tomic war Nostradamus terminal pollution

McAllister and generating Bane's shoots

of building a fallout shelter in their

own backyard

well everyone needs a hobby

we won didn't we convince small end of

the world is nigh maybe these no no I

reckon no apocalypse never

I don't like the sound of that

I looked out and across the lights of

the civilization I still wasn't a part

of I thought about everything and didn't

help

it said to me this is the moment don't

you see me seize the moment seize me out

there were simple hearts back there and

so true

and took the music and did not be too

wise but today when all this and the

human heart is stone there is no more

comfort to be heard from romantic lies

I saw things clear by how young love can

stand us out to die we make use to die

true but we understand

and beyond my love is yours find out

there is one

yes sir it will all be right someday we

will take the road together to the gate