John Kinsella is an Australian poet, critic, and editor. His books include The New Arcadia, Divine Comedy: Journeys Through Regional Geography, Activist Poetics, and Jam Tree Gully.

"It didn’t happen in that order —

the endless growl of what will turn out to be

miniature quad and trail bikes, carried along

the top of the valley and rumbling its contents:

small kids with helmets weighing more than their heads,

ragged on by parents with crossed arms and ambition

in their eyes: round and round the drone of fun.

A country pursuit. Tracy tells me a professor

of economics at a local city university

while praising capitalism says he will only

listen to opposition if it comes from one

who eats only lentils, has given up cars

and eschews imported brands of foodstuffs. Lentils?"