I identify
with yr fear
of the humble fly.
Just the other day, I swallowed one at the WACA, without sauce and without
hope.
I had one of their hideous hamburgers later - the fly was better.
Andrew
PS: WACA = Western Australian Cricket Association, our main cricket oval in
Perth.
On 10 November 2010 07:29, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In the park just now
> the season's first bush fly
>
> touched my face -
> a caress, no less -
>
> like a memory roused
> of bush flies past:
>
> the one in sweaty Mildura
> as I gaped at the Murray
>
> that settled on my tongue
> and was hard to spit out;
>
> in Gundagai I allowed
> one further and swallowed;
>
> numerous ones that reached
> wherever I was moist at the beach
>
> when the insect-repellent aerosol
> had mysteriously gone awol.
>
> Some complain of snakes,
> man-eating sharks,
> fatal lurking redbacks,
>
> tarantulas,
> fever-carrying mosquitoes,
> creatures poisonous
>
> infesting this region
> with diverse contagion.
>
> I merely testify
> against the bush fly.
>
>
>
> Max Richards in Melbourne
> 10 November 2010
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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