PILGRIM by ERIC CLAPTON. Poem by Brian A Salmons
...just happy/to be free again, talking about whatever with anybody, standing in line/with impunity on a Saturday for an Icee.
Pinball Number Count on Sesame Street. Story by Emma Westwood
Emma Westwood Geelong, 1977 Melbourne, 2014This kind of almost avant-garde compositional material – that would give the Herbie Hancocks and Frank Zappas of this world a run for their money – was actually created to appeal to children. Call me gob-smacked.
PINK FLAG by WIRE. Story by Gideon Haigh
It was only as the band members sloped off that they looked a little senior for all this excitement, ready for bed and a Horlicks. The mood in the audience was not just ecstatic but validated.
PIUKEONA by WELDON KEKAUOHA. Story by N.T. McQueen.
Island vibes drift from every campsite or group, creating an endless wave of music. For better or for worse.
POOL PARTY by JULIA JACKLIN. Story by Gemma Keating.
It was strange: I listened to it, and the unspoken words hanging between us were suddenly said – not by him, or me, but by this angelic voice from afar. It was an admission, an apology. No, it was a plea. No, maybe it was just a song.
POOR BOY BY SPLIT ENZ Story by Hugh Jones
Here in my city I’m fretting after my father, lost in the aftermath of a stroke and the creeping invasion of inoperable cancer.