Port of Melbourne Song

Flash rooms of noise and stars
with mirrors on the wall-
and Port of Melbourne's bars
are whirling ports of call

where mirrors on the wall
reflecting heads that come
from sundry ports of call
in one delirium

are merely heads that come
and smile and are removed
caught by delirium
to leave what was most loved,

and choose to be removed
from every point of rest
and pitch what was most loved
into the sea's unrest,

which is a kind of rest-
vast room of noise and stars;
drink, for the sea's unrest
dissolves all Melbourne's bars.