Fashionable people huddle

Layered up like herons

Musicians of varying talents

Try to appeal to us

With their varying gibes and costumes

As we walk smartly across town

Those with less skill making up for it

With elaborate costumes and a cheeky fascade

Those with real talent

Modestly slide across the strings effortlessly

Making me see an inverse relationship between ego and skill

It is by the cool cloak of night that Melbourne comes to life

Frantic, edgy and at moments impersonal 

The people either blending into their surroundings like chameleons

Their bright eyes shining like stars upon their subtle skies

Or bold elaborate contrasting carnies

Sprukers ever striving for the rapid flash of a shiny coin