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The Scent of Power

from Bloodsport & Porn by Augie March

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When the leader of the free lunch
had the poet of the profit gospel,
with the captain of the cardboard box
and the lady of the rapine harvest,
and the son of the actual satan
with his princess of the people’s underwear,
did you wonder at the smell in the air?
I wondered at the smell in the air

Powder, sweat, decay, underneath the grassy Tom Ford
and the Washington cat spray.

The sky was blue in that DC way -
the kind of blue that Miles would never play -
a light breeze roofied both our flags for a dance,
you must’ve got all kinds of dizzy in your pants…
with the paunchy civil war dress up bullshit pageantry,
did you think ‘what the fuck is this thing standing next to me?’,
or did you fully get lost in that circus,
picturing the picture taking pride in your rumpus room?

What a spread they did lay, such a table!

So many smells to discern were you able :

Vegemite, party pies,
Coon blocks and crackers,
And the barest faint whiff of the Engadine…

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from Bloodsport & Porn, released December 15, 2021

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Augie March Melbourne, Australia

Over the last 25 years, few Australian bands have enjoyed a synergy of critical and commercial success like Augie March. Their songs are heard on almost every radio format in the country - with gold and platinum albums to their credit - yet they remain iconoclasts, perennial outsiders. ... more

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