in the lagoon
enjoy this fleeting moment.
right before everything else goes to shit and we're stuck back in the 3 year
cycle {election/action/reaction/campaign/...repeat} we have another
historically significant moment, a skerrie of philosophical poignancy, once
more brought by the rudd government.
there was an apology, and i felt lifted inside.
there is now a female priminister, and i feel mixedly joyful.
at these times we're allowed a moment, in instant where we forget reality and
live in the glow of a knowledge outside of our regular condition, like a romance
with a character in a dream whose memory slips from you as the day unfolds until
night claims the faded reality again.
she'll fuck up, and we'll sleep again, but there will never be another first
female priminister,
and i don't give a fuck that there wasn't the publics say in who the leader is,
that's the remit of the party, the price of having representational democracy,
and in the end a politician still gets in.
right before everything else goes to shit and we're stuck back in the 3 year
cycle {election/action/reaction/campaign/...repeat} we have another
historically significant moment, a skerrie of philosophical poignancy, once
more brought by the rudd government.
there was an apology, and i felt lifted inside.
there is now a female priminister, and i feel mixedly joyful.
at these times we're allowed a moment, in instant where we forget reality and
live in the glow of a knowledge outside of our regular condition, like a romance
with a character in a dream whose memory slips from you as the day unfolds until
night claims the faded reality again.
she'll fuck up, and we'll sleep again, but there will never be another first
female priminister,
and i don't give a fuck that there wasn't the publics say in who the leader is,
that's the remit of the party, the price of having representational democracy,
and in the end a politician still gets in.
Labels: though no wind has blown., wind chimes heard from across a field
posted by Run for the Dawn | 7:26 PM
1 Comments:
You captured this beautifully - there will never be another first female priminister. We will be remembered for this time - this bland and banal moment is the historical pivot.
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I did think, though, that in America they don't always get a politician in power. They had a Hollywood actor in the 80s running their show! Which actor would we have if we followed that trend? President Flamin' Alf from Home and Away? Strewth!
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