Poem: Sometimes You Kick, Sometimes You Get Kicked

the INXS Kick album is 30 years old.

I remember it so well. (Still dig it – Side One especially).

It’s linked to when I had my first overseas trip.

To the Gold Coast and Sydney.

I’d saved my pocket money for a Walkman. My folks were going to buy me some jeans. Basketball boots too.

I got all these things – the red Walkman from the markets, some white basketb…