Tivoli
by claire Wednesday, Sep 3 2014, 10:19am
international / poetry / post

Kristina Keneally, "nobody's girl"

we watched from (DMR) forty two
as they knocked old Tivoli down,
where did all the high kickin’
Tivoli girls go?

we watched Sydney history
collapse in a pile of rubble,
Laurie Brereton, as bent as ever
a Labor politician could be
built a monorail (for peter abeles)
in its place,
a horrid Sydney eyesore until
they took it down decades later

a Yankee (turned Aussie) girl
took Brereton down and became
the first female Premier of NSW,
she pissed in Brereton’s face
tho a nice Catholic girl
does not spread a leg too easily,
where did all the high-kickin’
Tivoli girls go?

Kristina is still pissin’ in corrupt
Labor faces at the ICAC,
where did all the high-kickin’
Tivoli girls go?