Paris Rosemont
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Thai Australian poet. Author of poetry collections 'Banana Girl' and 'Barefoot Poetess'.
You may find me at https://www.parisrosemont.com/
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I grew up in a blue-collar suburb flanked by factories. We were the only Asians within a two-mile radius. Our neighbours were men dressed in hi-vis vests, cargo pants, steel-capped boots and either hard hats or hair nets. They would pour out of their steaming boiler rooms at the sound of the smoko whistle, empty truck palettes becoming makeshift seats for them to perch on as they wolfed down their salami and cheese sandwiches in a few ravenous chomps. Their wives would pack them cool drinks in summer, and thermoses of hot tea during the bleak winter months, when daylight savings would cloak the world in longer stretches of darkness. Mind you, it didn’t make much difference to the workers in the windowless factories. At the end of each day, they would stream out of the factories like ants making their way back to their respective queens who were waiting dutifully at their single-storey fibro nests with their supper of meat and three veg. The asbestos poisoning and lawsuits by dying men and their soon-to-be-widows came later; though that is a different story. Ditto the chemical leaks into the local water supply.
By Paris Rosemont2 days ago in Fiction
