Interview

I got interviewed with Jamie yesterday afternoon about the GPO. The interviewer was a nice but slightly disinterested guy called Jake. We met at the water feature at St Leonards station. He said he'd be wearing a tan hat but it was more off white/grey than tan. He needed a chocolate bar to function. He actually called it candy which was weird and cultural.

I'm not too sure what he expected but we had fun mostly at his and other peoples expense. He asked what our inspiration was and we fell into a good cop/bad cop routine. Where Jamie wrote to shake people out of their rut, I wrote to hurt people. I likened my poetry to the stories of people leaving razor blades in water slides - they're not going to be there in the water slide when it cuts someone open, but they know that they'll be hurting someone. I believe that my poetry is a literary razor blade waiting to mind cut someone. Jake was disturbed by this and reacted physically by cringing and moving away slightly. We discussed more stuff about organic growth and trying to find the worst in people by writing horrible, dirty poetry. I saw some fear and it was ace.

The highlight came about 40 mins into the interview. We had left army men strapped with poetry around the water feature at St Leonards and watched people's reactions. We'd had a couple of nibbles from people who looked but didn't touch until this old guy picked up two soldiers only to put them down again. He then walked up to a line of seven and by that stage his defences were down. He made sure he picked the one that called to him the most and took it home to his invalid wife to share a poem that most likely has something to do with sodomy.

Five minutes afterwards a group of four 20 somethings picked up a soldier each and had an impromptu rectal with our work. It felt great, watching them from across the water feature, reciting, leaning back and laughing in appreciation. They walked off and passed two bins but they didn't feel the need to dispose of our poems. They kept them to show to friends and perhaps family.

Hopefully Jake felt some vaildation at that moment as we'd wasted his time for about 50 mins up until that point. He asked a couple more questions and made his retreat. I like to think we had done well. If anything becomes of the interview I'll let you know asap.

Anyways, to round out here's a picture of a water slide - hopefully without razor blades.



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