Dear Geraldine
When I was a Deakin Uni (Geelong)
student, there was an excellent local
band called "The Mulloways"
thanks for your poem
Hugh
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From: geraldine mckenzie <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Food for thought
>
> This is an old one but it's got food and sex and maybe something else
> besides.
>
> Geraldine
>
> Mulloway
>
>
> Did you dream your death last night -
> breathless as a mulloway rasping silver over
> the ledges, the gaff entering like a judgement?
>
> Did you see me running moon-armed
> down a narrow street, carillions of garbage cans
> jangling the pavement, enough to wake the dead
>
> in their cosy parlours surrounded by whiskey
> and sandwiches and you in an alleyway
> straddling some tipsy mourner, tears unpeel
>
> her face with you swearing the same old lies
> sweating on your usual hook though you allow
> her mouth and sing a soft bum curled
>
> like butter and breasts falling plums into
> your ready hands. Everything's edible of course
> including the mulloway, which lasted nearly a week.
>
>
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