Where do I live

Where do I live, a writers union challenge January 12, 2007

Y!360 Writers Union

Where do I live.

I don’t live anywhere interesting like a reservation, with
strange objects pointing too the sky and alien landing craft in the middle of
the town.

I don’t live near a beautiful harbor

But I do live in the middle of a place where bushrangers
once roamed,

where the soil is red, the sky blue,

the sun a bright orange ball at sunset,

the moon a face in the night sky

A place of diversity a place of many cultures

A place of distances and long car trips, a country whose
animals differ in size from the smallest penguin and the whales are larger than a
house

A country where thongs are worn on feet and stubbies are
kept in eskies

, where meat is minced and

Emu is not on the menu

I live in a place, in the future but not too far away,
where summer is winter and winter summer, where it snows in July

and December is hot

A place of states and territories and meeting
places

Of green and gold at cricket matches

Where we laugh at Kylie Minouge

Where we have secret clones of Sam Neil,

hidden away for the next Matrix
movie

Where do I live?

The middle of Australia, four hours drive away from snow
in winter, six hours away from the nearest beach,

where our cars wear yellow plates

and driving on the left is the thing too do,

unless you like the men in blue.

Some photos are mine, the moon is Gabi's others are from
Google, some are clickable too