Paul Keating

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 15 09:04:42 PST 2001


Daniel Davies wrote:


>The master of political
>invective, IMO, was Paul Keating, lovingly archived at
>
>http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/

[...]


>the man was a genius.

And he, in his tough sadomonetarism, inspired the catchy poem by John Forbes that Meaghan Morris uses as the epigraph to "Ecstasy and Economics":

Watching the Treasurer

I want to believe the beautiful lies the past spreads out like a feast.

Television is full of them & inside their beauty you can act: Paul Keating's

bottom lip trembles then recovers like the exchange rate under pressure

buoyed up as the words come out - elegant apostle of necessity, meaning

what rich Americans want, his world is like a poem, completing that utopia

no philosopher could argue with, where what seems, is & what your words describe

you know exists, under a few millimetres of invisible cosmetic, bathed

in a milky white flourescent glow.



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