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Sunday, June 26, 2005
Then They Hit the Emu
Driving down the highway into Bordertown .. three men in a car. The car barely makes it.
A local invites them for dinner at the Assemblies of God Hall . One of the group is a travelling Israeli tank driver - he accepts the invite .. the others go to pub ..
they are invited back to a neighbouring house party .. abbatoir workers crash and begin trashing place, upending jars of honey and cereal .. one of the travellers slides along a table top, slices open a finger, blood pours ..
He lashes out and hits a local and is pinned down by others. One comes at him with a knife. He bursts free and with crazy eyes stares them down. He runs outside, his friend follows. they clamber onto the top of a water tank and watch as the locals teem out looking for them.
Cars drive off. They call a friend's girlfriend in Horsham to drive and rescue them cos their car is held together by a piece of string - they'd hit an emu two nights b4 ( The sight of feathers floating about in the desert darkness .. ) on the
Nullarbor ..
at the time, the passenger had his legs up on the dash - the driver had been
trying to get something in the glove box or on the ground. When they hit, the impact crushed the chassis up beneath his legs. he wouldve lost them if he'd been sitting properly ..
the girlfriend arrives. They return to the car. The Israeli is asleep in the back ...
On the Nullarbor. A wedge tailed eagle, dying by the side of the road. Maggots infesting it.
" The eagle is my totem .. " they pull it into the back of the ute. It's
flailing about.
He gets out and takes a stick to its head ...
" We killed an eagle. Now we're in the shit .. " " But we had to .. " lets just drive "
... and then they hit the emu ..
A local invites them for dinner at the Assemblies of God Hall . One of the group is a travelling Israeli tank driver - he accepts the invite .. the others go to pub ..
they are invited back to a neighbouring house party .. abbatoir workers crash and begin trashing place, upending jars of honey and cereal .. one of the travellers slides along a table top, slices open a finger, blood pours ..
He lashes out and hits a local and is pinned down by others. One comes at him with a knife. He bursts free and with crazy eyes stares them down. He runs outside, his friend follows. they clamber onto the top of a water tank and watch as the locals teem out looking for them.
Cars drive off. They call a friend's girlfriend in Horsham to drive and rescue them cos their car is held together by a piece of string - they'd hit an emu two nights b4 ( The sight of feathers floating about in the desert darkness .. ) on the
Nullarbor ..
at the time, the passenger had his legs up on the dash - the driver had been
trying to get something in the glove box or on the ground. When they hit, the impact crushed the chassis up beneath his legs. he wouldve lost them if he'd been sitting properly ..
the girlfriend arrives. They return to the car. The Israeli is asleep in the back ...
On the Nullarbor. A wedge tailed eagle, dying by the side of the road. Maggots infesting it.
" The eagle is my totem .. " they pull it into the back of the ute. It's
flailing about.
He gets out and takes a stick to its head ...
" We killed an eagle. Now we're in the shit .. " " But we had to .. " lets just drive "
... and then they hit the emu ..
