Zigzag Street (1996)
“I’m the Neighbour of the Month. I have performed the act deemed most neighbourly in the inner-western suburbs in the preceding four weeks. She wants to feature me in the last February edition. She wants to talk to me tonight. I feel powerless to stop her.
Perhaps the 1950s was the age when Neighbour of the Month would have been a good thing. It has Good Old Fashioned Values written all over it. In the nineties it is not a prize to covet. It is not in any way a Late Millenium concept.
Hillary st...icks her head round my door. Things ready for Sydney?
Sure.
Have you lined up someone to feed your cat?
No.
Don’t say I’m not looking after you.
I don’t say that I’m Neighbour of the Month either. And how would it make my grandmother feel? The woman who spent, and I do this in my head, about eight hundred and fifty months in the neighbourhood and went unrecognised. I move in, pull up a tree, and in a few weeks I’m a hero. It’s a harsh world, our neighbourhood. Fuck it, she’s a grandmother.MoreLess
Perhaps the 1950s was the age when Neighbour of the Month would have been a good thing. It has Good Old Fashioned Values written all over it. In the nineties it is not a prize to covet. It is not in any way a Late Millenium concept.
Hillary st...icks her head round my door. Things ready for Sydney?
Sure.
Have you lined up someone to feed your cat?
No.
Don’t say I’m not looking after you.
I don’t say that I’m Neighbour of the Month either. And how would it make my grandmother feel? The woman who spent, and I do this in my head, about eight hundred and fifty months in the neighbourhood and went unrecognised. I move in, pull up a tree, and in a few weeks I’m a hero. It’s a harsh world, our neighbourhood. Fuck it, she’s a grandmother.MoreLess
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