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58 AN EXILE OF THE MIND STANDING IN FOR THE BEATLES 59
Outside a Marae near Tauranga.
Jane attracted all the mosquitoes. The memorable Harry at Jane’s 21st. The storage box made a great coffin table.
Jane sometimes nodded off at the ed nearby. The banging and sawing given by the newspaper, I studied named due to his tenuous kinship
rear of the scooter and drooped drew attention from its inmates. A for the Preliminary Fine Art Exams with the nobility. The landlady
dangerously close to the asphalt. A constant reminder of life’s imper- at the High School. And passed by stared glassy eyed by the front door
slight jiggle of the scooter propped manency to greet their day as they a whisker to enter the hallowed in disbelief.
her perpendicular again as we sped peeked through twitching curtains. halls of Ilam School of Fine Arts at Months were spent in class
towards new landscapes, braving A delegate was sent over to take Canterbury University. sketching plaster casts of a nose, an
hordes of malicious mosquitoes, flash a closer peek and looked dubious Carefully wrapped in brown ear and sometimes a foot, courtesy
flooding and gravel roads. We drove when told I was making a funerary paper in a futile effort to conceal its of Michelangelo’s statue of David.
through a frozen panorama of sparse box for later occupancy and would shape, the coffin arrived at the depot. This dreary curriculum unchanged
tussock vegetation and snow grass on he like to try it for size. He stormed A group of workmen, solemn with since the nineteenth century. The
the Desert Road near Lake Taupo, off threatening to call the police. caps in hand, offered condolences monotony was usually broken by the
lightly dressed in our summer gear. This full-sized casket was really as it was hoisted onto the back of antics of Dick Frizzell and his kohl-
Months later a pine coffin slowly designed to carry my books and a rented ute. To be delivered at the eyed, black stockinged girlfriend,
took shape in my front yard across other possessions to the south. A front door of my flat and dragged a Goth girl before her time. A fair
the road from the cemetery and the tentative step on a journey into upstairs with the help of ‘Right budding actress in my class, Cecily
old folks’ home conveniently situat- academia. With time off, kindly Honourable’, my new flatmate. So Polson, shy and demure under dark
