franky’s used cars
nobody's highway
Oct 10
We would croon soft and intimate abuse as he raged back at us for our illegitimate insults; us, the founding Bondi Fascista.
Lennox head is more than just a perfect wave - the pub does sausages
Fresh Lobster omelet, mace, red peppercorns and garlic chives at Crowdy Head, August 1958, 5.40 pm.
Not many surfers work, those that do sometimes own cars - we examine this peculiarity
Harry did not see himself as a diarist. He wrote to be able to know men better. To understand.
A young prostitute blazes away on her wet nighttime corner, igniting the pale blur of a face in every car that rubbers by in the winter rain.
A perfect young man slides into a spare seat and connects his laptop and iphone and ipod and earphones - his girlfriend is looking at her palm, there must be a phone in there somewhere - they do not speak. Every now and then he tosses back his long hair and rakes his fingers through the curls, he has a stain on the back of his shirt.
Older men slowly ease into the sea-fold wreak, rafting away on their submersible logs, deluded and intent. Flinty eyed old gluttons, claiming every trough, every peak.
May 26
Back before we read Nick Carroll’s illuminating opinion in the last edition of Kurungabaa - ‘ The New Sarcasm ‘ - the sight of this particular abomination would have set us off on a torrent of abuse and bitter criticism.
A soft grassy patch under a shady tree that is also open to the sea breeze is considered sacred ground and as such is hotly protected from all other incursions.