Almanac Poetry: Google Earth

Google Earth
(a true story)

 

Typical scene
in an Australian
industrial town:
the outer suburb
bakes in red dust,
beneath a boiling sun.
Google Earth visits the street,
capturing it in images.
The woman,
laughing to herself,
thinks why not?
Stands in front of her house,
on the footpath,
whips her T-shirt
over her head.
No bra,
revealing basketball boobs,
orbs that make busty celebs
the world over
look like women
with ‘insufficient flying buttresses’,
which is how a theatre critic described
the top half of Dame Diana Rigg
when she appeared nude on stage.

 

But back to the story…
The husband of Mrs Topless
in the Australian town
is supportive in the image
Google Earth makes,
standing, to one side, behind her
on their scraggly front lawn,
dragging on a smoke,
as his wife shares her tits with half the world,
while a kid (presumably her son)
sits on their small front porch
looking the other way,
apparently bored,
doesn’t care at all,
about Mum’s gleeful reveal
of her magnificent mammaries.

 

 

 

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