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by Malcolm Hill The milk crate is the symbol of the punk music revolution. The milk crate is a great example of a group of people taking an object, designed for a purpose, and appropriating it for their own use. More than just a symbol, the milk crate is actually the most highly functional and practical object you could find in a pre Ikea world. Because, well…. It can be what ever you want it to be! It keeps changing according to its use! You can…. put your amp on it, run a hot lighting desk on it, build a stage, create a bed base, you can make a kitchen table out of it, put records in, watch gigs from… You can put four milk crates on top of each other to climb over a fence to steal more milk crates The milk crate is light to carry but takes incredible weight You can’t break it! And how much does it cost? It’s free! And - it’s all around! Particularly in the early morning and late at night in the inner city. And it’s very punk - bec...

1961 Glenda: Good to hear your voice. Fos: Sounds like you’re speaking from prison. G: No, I am a newlywed wifey in a suburb in Australia and my future is mapped out in a grid like the streets around here. F: Come back to the murky park where we use to throw the magic ball and chase fairies down the hill. G: Sure we did, but only after learning our rote English and maths timetables. F: Yes, for a crack on the knuckles. G: Well, I am about to be a modern housewife with a new kitchen. My husband has put his shingle out and set up a business. All future lines will proceed in an outward direction north, east and west. F: Mmm….we are still burning autumn leaves in the muddy backyard that leads down to the local creak that is our sewerage outlet;  the Salvation Army band still blow trombones at dusk outside our houses once a year. G: Fresh milk appears on the doorstep every morning, just like that. F: I’ve heard how the lonely ho...

Modern Love PART 1 Hey nerd! what’s the Word Package you prefer? Sit up in your perfumed high tower, look past your Window of flat electrodes  to distant suburbs you moved away from, your father’s features, reflecting in the window. Hey nerd  what’s the word? Corporate aspirant  testing firewalls over summer while completing IT degree. Hey Nerd! What’s the Word  Package you prefer? PART 2 To brag, to boast, it’s his new cotton blend suit. There’s a girl he grew up with, sort of, down the road. Standing in her parents fly wire doorway, They cry, "The man with the golden arm has come to take our daughter away.” To Melbourne to Melbourne, she pleads, she begs. They sit in icy station wagon by the computer college’s cut and paste bricks.  Inside the pub  they sink pots and jugs then he whisks her off to the college lab, lays her on the large imaging screen, her gypsy...