creep exciting bender building
plan ride vision drink night take-off
alone home load up six pack ale
bubbly bottle wine from cask
public transport heading city
down-town music hipster pub
beer pints plenty five six seven
pipes outside stoners blazing
drink chat ramble eight ball play darts
move rock fast be art crew locals
outside gabble venue closing
night-club stumble try look sober
spirits first more beers cold bottles
floating wasted dance-floor crazy
dark corner kissing mumble stranger
conversation intimate new best mate
leaving club mindless wobble
dawn sky rhythm laugh fall blunder
after party alien hook-up
smoke cigarettes pot-fuelled sex the follow
bright light home time walk-crawl-wasted
checking pockets phone still there
unconscious sleep hot dehydrated
wake up put together my night out big
Stephen House is an award winning Australian playwright, poet and actor. He’s won two Awgie Awards (Australian Writer’s Guild) , Adelaide Fringe Award, Rhonda Jancovich Poetry Award for Social Justice, Goolwa Poetry Cup, Feast Short Story Prize and more. He’s been shortlisted for Lane Cove Literary Award, Overland’s Fair Australia Fiction Prize, Patrick White Playwright and Queensland Premier Drama Awards, Greenroom best actor Award and more. He’s received Australia Council literature residencies to Ireland and Canada, and an India Asialink. His chapbook “real and unreal” was published by ICOE Press Australia. He is published often and performs his work widely.