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There’s something at the bottom of the black pool

I daren’t dredge it up not while the weather’s still cool

It’s a feathered thing, its origins are mixed and untrue

Once a straw-body, now a lamb-picker, now a clove in a black brew…

I think of the peacocks of the gorge and I think of the gryphons they kept in

the Tower Zoo

The unexpected water swept all before it

As it rushed on terrible through —

And left them all dead, and spread through the park

Amid the myriad mangles of the coming dark —

Of the shadow of a loon, the howl from a bloody craw

Those strange interruptions don’t scare me anymore

Since all the while the weather was cool I stood at the crumbling edge of the

black pool

Perhaps a pigeon fell off its stool

I have drowned a conscience or two

There are palm trees and clouds and the under-sides of drowned blues

And sometimes the faces of people I think I knew…

I know at one time this thing flew

I have sunk an ambition or two

Now when I think to drink, then I wonder with who

I pretend that I’m sitting in the booth with you —

O what a fuckin' sentence, what a fuckin' noise

I don’t know these girls, I don’t trust these boys

And over there in the corner, there hangs a strange bird

Sings a strange song but it won’t be heard

A song to enquire whither went the milk money

While the darling babes of Toorak were a’yowling for their honey

Let’s walk up this hill, let’s go walking up this hill

The sun is in the middle of the sky, the grass is yellow from being dry

There’s music, there’s you, many others here and I

Up the hill then, up where those holy lodestones lie —

How suddenly still, and though the wind blow

From here we will never leave or go

And but for a will, and but for companions

We might go tumbling home below

To a place at the table, to gamble and settle

Make the words «amiable» and «able»

Of resting assured, in the breast of that bird

That I sure did not suffer a fool

Since all the while the weather was cool I stood at the crumbling edge of the

black pool

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