Yeah, Roger, Ileft the ambiguity in there - snake/beer. They are a
deadly snake - if we get bitten here, it is a case of which prayers do
you remember. Yu're not meant tomove if bitten, but call for help.
What, from a crow? or a cockatoo? Nobody else within hearing distance
most times.Still, it would be an interesting way to die. Too many
boring ways in our cities ...
Thanks for your comments, Kasper. I think y're right a lot of the
time, so I may have another go at it today. (Don't archive itjust yet,
Roger, please. I'll send another versionlater - .... soonish.)
Andrew
(I used the 'Androo' when I was an Aussie amongst so many foreigners -
Americans, Chinese, Japanese - just to keep my Ozidentity upfront...
but now that I am home, I have reverted to the more traditional
spelling.)
On 26/07/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jeez, at 3 metres and as think as a man's forearm, that's a helluva
> snake. And very venomous, although I can't find anything to say *how*
> lethal their bite is. Of course, Androo could equally be referring to
> the beer, "King Brown" (^_^)
>
> On 7/25/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > a five year old boy,
> > black as coal,
> > weilds a stockwhip
> > in the yard. It's
> > shortened for him-
> > still he makes it crack
> > lightning and thunder.
> >
> > on the cyclone fence
> > a black crow steps
> > gingerly toward
> > the chirping chittering
> > willy-willy-wagtail
> >
> > whose lifelong mate
> > skips and hops
> > in the waterfall
> > of a plastic sprinkler
> > to settle the dust.
> >
> > I'm a cityslicker in
> > an exotic world again,
> > breathing in
> > true bulldust,
> > watching out for
> > King Browns.
> >
>
>
> --
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> "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
> Roman Proverb
>
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Andrew
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