sydney is a furnace, oppressive and sweltering, records break as the mercury rises. kids cry, mothers getting angry on short fuses and the traffic melts on the freeway. 
it's midnight as i drive down the motorway, the windows are down, i'm blasting some groovy tunes, the faint smell of bush fires drifts through the windows.
yeah days like these you gotta be careful, i watch the p plater ahead driving like a maniac, all over the road, no discipline, no character, his driving is youthfully arrogant and the cigarette but still ablaze shoots out from his window and rolls down the road into the bush is evidence.
this is the butterfly flapping it's wing, in sydney on days like these a burning ember can destroy a community, i seen it close up, i fought bush fires and let me tell you close up these are oceans of flame, like waves they get angry and unpredictable, and a man can either stand and burn or get out of denver.
i've had a strange day, i went into work and the unit was like a sweat box, no air conditioning, no fans, everyone was uncomfortable and dripping in sweat, some staff had gone home sick and i thought what about the poor guys that live there, it's not like they can go home.
i ring up head office, 'look it's not that i'm given to complain but these guys deserve some relief.'
'well everyone here has gone home.'
'yeah to their nice air cons and ice blocks, but these guys have not got that luxury?'
'well take them out somewhere, where they have air conditioners, take them to the movies.'
so i do, we go see a great film in 3d, it's the life of pi and we all loved it, actually i have read the book and this is one example of a film that is much better than the book.
we get home around 10pm, there's a change on it's way, i can feel it in the wind, but the house is still a sweatbox, yeah government funding, the wonderful labour party dishes up millions to their big government but my people, they gotta sweat it out.
by the time i get home the wind is up, the mercury is falling fast, it's nice standing outside in the wind, feeling it lick the sweat from my skin. relief feels good.