My grandchildren have never seen me drink. In fact, my youngest son
has never seen me drink alcohol. (He's 27.) I'm dinkie-die Aussie. I
worried, when I put down the grog, that I would never write again. Ha,
now I can't stop :-)
Andrew the Antipodean in Cathay
On 02/11/06, Heather Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm originally from Canada - so I'm afraid to say it's a global epidemic...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Compton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 November 2006 10:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Long snap: Drinking
>
> i do like that poem - it is a very austraian poem
> i hope yoiu are not going to tell me you live in another country which also
> has that problem
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Heather Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Long snap: Drinking
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:38:42 -0000
>
> This is a longer one but I wanted to share, get some feedback, etc. Tried
> to send it last night but it didn't go through...
>
>
> It was absent in my house:
> red wine, white, baileys, whiskey, six packs.
> No one had beer at the end of a hot summer work week
> or snuck something in their coffee mid-afternoon.
>
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