Utterly Goon
TomTom's a dumb-dumb
doesn't stock a Wattle Point Jetty;
but let's not be petty,
try Goon Nure,
for rule of thumb -
since that name looms near.
'Goon Nure City Centre':
that it had listed, so... Enter!
Later:
'You have reached your destination.'
We stared in consternation:-
to the right an empty dam,
to the left a leery ram.
No thriving metropolis -
something here amiss.
Bot was taking the piss,
or Goon Nure
was a gonner
even the ghost of a ghost town gone
nary a ruin to lean upon,
Willy-willy* twisted silly
into devilish insubstantiality,
Goon with the wind;
'the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
the solemn temples...'* had faded
and left not a horse's behind.
Half a mile down the road we saw a sign
'Free-Range Eggs: $5' - clarifying
'Chooks' and a farm hove into view...
and then with house number two
that made a hamlet, I conceded,
If validation still was needed.
....................
Goon Nure has a population of 180 and is an area along a road with smaller roads running from it housing the people, so that you would hardly notice any habitation. The TomTom has a habit of finding non-existent 'city centres'. Fernbank did have two buildings in the location chosen as its 'centre' by TomTom. It had a pottery shop and sculptor's studio run by the same enterprising guy. That whole community is 156 strong.
But to the main point: I cannot get out of a search engine which Aboriginal tribe lived in Goon Nure area, though some one will know to be sure. In Europe every foot-space of ground has a history and prehistory and people want to know it. If this is not the case in Australia, I can only conclude that what is feared is that archeology will turn up more massacres.
'Willy-willy' is another name for 'dust devil'.
'The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces
the solemn temples...' from 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare.
