thank you
galah as an insult
ok
L
On Thu, April 12, 2012 11:21, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Here it is ...
>
>
> Ocker poem / Just for larfs
> Don’t come the raw prawn with me!
> I yelled at him.
> He was gobsmacked, so I
> hightailed it out of there, grinning like a shot fox. Bloody galah, I
> mumbled to meself, he doesn’t half get up me freckle. Still, I felt bad for
> coming across as cross as a frog in a sock, but fair dinkum I reckon he had
> a couple of roos loose in the top paddock. I stumbled into home
> only to find the missus had dropped her trackie daks and was flashing a
mappa
> Tassie.
> Strewth, the old fella
> thought he was a joey and there was his mother’s pouch. Sheilas act a
little
> daft if you don’t hide the snagger on demand, but truth is I could’ve done
> with a sanger instead. Honour bound, I got to
> slinging me weight in the right direction like any good wombat, then
threw on
> the ol’ feed bag and forgot the stupid bastard ever existed.
>
> On 12 April 2012 17:15, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> It's a sort of pun or joke on 'and roo' - Ozzifying it. In this town we
>> have three Australian poets, all called Andrew. At times it gets
>> confusing for people, so I play with my name - better than Andy, or
>> Drew, or Andre.
>>
>>
>> In ways y're right: there's Jacko and Davo, Snow and Willo, Joe-Blow
>> and So-and-so. Maybe women get other endings - like Lizzie and Julie,
>> Mary and
>> Toni ... and the well-known Sheila which has become a generic term for
>> women in Australia.
>>
>> It's a whole other discussion, isn't it. I'll dig out an Aussie
>> vernacular poem I wrote in China for the Yanks there - and post it when
>> I find it.
>>
>>
>> Androo
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12 April 2012 15:32, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> That's interesting, Androo. Androo? Must be the Australian tendency
>>> to put an o of everything.
>>>
>>> (You may not know that. I have said that to several Australians who
>>> seemed surprised. I first noticed it years ago. I was carpet-cleaning
>>> -- pubs
>>> overnight, good money but killing -- and an Aussie who joined us: pass
>>> the spotto. Which meant _would you mind awfully passing the spot
>>> remover, old chap?_)
>>>
>>> But back to the poem. It's been several words and none of them quite
>>> gets what she did. It may be that what she did, the real child on the
>>> real wall, may have to be... er... smoothed.
>>>
>>> I'll have a think. I'm very grateful to you
>>>
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, April 12, 2012 05:27, Andrew Burke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lawrenzo - I liked it all but felt, after feeling the slo-mo effect
>>>> of the majority of the poem, that 'snatching' was a bit aggressive
>>>> for her movement there ... Just a thought.
>>>>
>>>> Androo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12 April 2012 02:01, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Doug
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> L
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, April 11, 2012 19:07, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Nicely seen & juedged, especially the 'stumble' on 'that //
>>>>>> far'...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>> On 2012-04-11, at 9:28 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> snapshot
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> a child on a wall untouched a touch shaky on narrowness
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> snatching at air between herself and a bush
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> as if to pull them – herself and the bush – closer to each
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> unable to go that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> far without stumbling from the edginess
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> urging herself “Reach! Reach!” turning towards people
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and their beyond world commands “Go away! All go!”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>>>>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>>>>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>>>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>>>>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Latest books:
>>>>>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>>>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>>>>> Wednesdays'
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-pre
>>> ss
>>>>> _10
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> .html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority
>>>>>> of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave_breath_ out
>>>>>> of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Kiyooka
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>>
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