Byron Bay: This side of the Pacific
there are at least five dudes
with dreads in the hostel here,
one will teach you how to carve
a didgeridoo if you want to,
and another wears funny pants
another dude was in a music video
once, one i met at dinner hates Australia
for some reason, another is really
really tall, a young French one lost
his shirt and the guy who sleeps
above me looks like Rhys Ifans
a couple girls wear shorts that are really
just way too short, a couple others should
wear shorter shorts than they do
two girls from Norway lay by the pool
all day, at least i think they are
from Norway
everyone wears sunglasses, some
of us are sunburnt, no one wears
shoes
the town is full of people passing through,
so many it makes you wonder who lives here,
who’d want to, with so many tourists
wandering ’round the place
the beach is wide and white, it curves
like the lemon slice on the rim of my glass
of iced tea
the shops are full of shit, music of all kinds
played all day at high volume
a girl in a bikini yelled at me from the passenger seat
of a van, “Cheeky Cheeky Choo!” she said, talking
’bout a club i was supposed to go to but never did
i met a couple nice folks, drank a goon with ’em,
ate a ganja cookie, watched The Big Lebowski and
slept late
then i swam on this side of the Pacific
and bodysurfed for a bit
Tags: Australia, Byron Bay
ismateo
Boy, it sounds like you are having a terrible time. I don’t envy you and your 7 month vacation.