AS CLEAR AS BLACK AND WHITE

Thinking back
nearly thirty years
She was a bigot
dead now I suppose

Vacuum behind
that dresser
change that
bed linen!
(un-slept in)

African males
(about ten in all)
Occupied rooms
for two minutes

Clean that toilet
Scrub that shower
(the recesses un- used)

she must have
told them to leave!

Oh how naive I was
with my eighteen year old
housemaid knees

Saw a gun at the
Mansfield
now torn down

Manhattan building
and San Francisco
in our Sydney streets
with flowers and LSD

When Vietnam
was hot and
American men on R&R
where the flavour
Go Go Whisky nights

Never touched
the drugs. but
The yanks and
the whisky
You betcha.

Damn nasty housekeeper
all as clear now
as black and white.