I used my
‘gynecological visit’
voice on the phone
to the Centrelink1
guy today.
“Just bear with
me a moment,” he said,
as he clicked,
and typed,
and ticked
away on the screen
at the other end.
And as if I’d
heard the chink of cold metal
clamping between my
open legs,
I responded,
“Yep,”
in that flat
submissive tone.
1 Australian government welfare agency
