Geraldton Wax

About 50 km north of Geraldton

The Northwest Coastal Highway becomes Hampton Road

And on the corner of Hampton and Fifth Avenue

There's an old Caltex station where the road trains reload

Rusted sheet metal walls rise from cracked concrete

Your depth perception dances in the shimmering heat

Old rickety gates marked by wood surname signs

Line the sparsely housed wide set dead end streets

If you drive down to where the gravel gives way

To the orange dirt road laced with paddy melon seed