The Bendigonians can be proud of their city
Put on the map by the gold rush.
Bendigo old stately buildings are a living testament
Of this epic Victorian era.
Nothing was too good or too rich
The buildings could be built with four facades
So rare in Australia as a tablet explains it!
From a tent city within two years
It had a post office and a hospital.
It followed the well established
Second-Empire style of building
So much in fashion then.
Therefore her town edifices do not
lack decorations
Such as lion muzzles, urns, garlands
and cornucopias.
So much so that as its European
equivalent
This one has lost its Australian
flavor.
But that was the point you see
It needed to show the world
That civilization had come and
settled there.
Nowadays it is a different game, Bendigo
has to show
What a modern metropolis it has become.
Well it certainly succeeded
In breaking with the old Victorian
models.
No more copies nowadays, just original modern urban bunkers
Which I suppose go well with the
public toilet blocks
They hide away in the middle of the
shopping mall.
It has the added advantage of displaying
Two idyllic bush settings to conceal odors maybe?
Or to act as a reminder to Bendigonians of what was
before
It does not matter how hard one tries
to forget
The injustices and crimes committed
Their souvenir will come back to the
forefront when last expected.
The children may run between the spouts of the
paving fountain
I see the blood that once was freely
running there.
©L. Bailliet
4/2/2012
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