Copyright (C) 1999 by Stephen Oliver
Unmanned
Stephen Oliver
Also by Stephen Oliver
& INTERVIEWS
(Horizontal Press, 1978)
EARTHBOUND MIRRORS
(Horizontal Press, 1984)
GUARDIANS, NOT ANGELS
(Hazard Press, 1993)
ISLANDS OF WILDERNESS A ROMANCE
(Penguin Australia, 1996)
HEADWORX WELLINGTON
(C) Stephen Oliver, 1999
First published 1999
ISBN 0-473-05753-0
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HeadworX Publishers
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Contents
I
Cultural MisappropriationWord Maps 1. Down By The River 2. National Park Holiday 3. False Idols 4. Surveyors Party 5. Got Ourselves A Convoy! 6. Cultural Desert 7. Down By The Station 8. Continental Shelf Co. 9. Three Cheers The Militia! 10. Video Conference 11. Crow Country 12. Hills Of Home 13. Eco-TourismGeneration ofPat Boone & TontoTo Talk of FlagsWords to Lure a GhostChistmasEmblems 1. Adam 2. Oblation 3. Detail 4. Born 5. Style 6. BeachcomberTransgenic PigsSheet MusicMyth & MariolatryStorkUnmannedBraidwoodModern LoveBrilliant LosersHotel DiligenciasWardrobe DrinkersGirl. Gold. BoatDomestic Pack Shots 1. The Gays Next Door 2. Working Hot 3. Hooking For Jesus 4. The Priest Across The Lane 5. Corruption Is Glorified Mateship 6. Inner City Camping BluesTarts & TakeawaysWho Killed Brett WhiteleySugarbag CarpenterAunty EveHarold LloydConrad & Wells & Co.Hoppalong CassidyBob OrrDave SpencerYou Dont Remember DyingGraham CliffordBruno LawrenceThe Still Watches
Poets have wrongd poor storms: such days are best;
They purge the air without, within the breast.
George Herbert
Cultural Misappropriation
is that what I hear you cry, citizen?If a delph-glazed moon with its O sodelicate pattern pans over Holland, flat asa tack, it also comes by way of theAntarctic circle right to your doorstepin equal measure. If the sun clampsits golden torque on mosque or synagogue, pa,cathedral or sacred sit