She said she came from Where the skies and leaden ocean Left her like the local boys, barren of As we talked we watched the Running down the in Darlinghurst, Like a fish shop the past.
And her mother called her Mary Magdalene, To deny her Would have been the sin It was a in the neon and a Kings Cross Doorway lean To half an hour of someone else's tangled dream.
There lines of sailors, lines of speed upon the Footpath where she stared When things were quiet, as night to dawn. And the coke cups red rover In the breeze that through the streets Taxies left for fields While stretched and yawned
And her mother her Mary Mary Magdalene, There were in the morning, She had sisters in the And the wives would their husbands Perhaps shared the shame, working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes much the same.
She tap-danced the buskers Near the subway shouting blues They remembered from their teenage of dreamtime radio. And the years behind her eyes To let the little look out In childish innocence At in the sand.
And her called her Mary After Magdalene, She had long dark and massage oil And a key to let you in; And the lines upon her face were of roads she'd travelled, Lined with throwing stones because they didn't understand, That a half an hour of (perhaps they shared the same) 'cause working streets and Weddingrings are sometimes the same.