Thanks Max Bill will pass onto Janet -could be other 'unthinkable' versions
of this poem for other indigenous peoples!! How about Cornwall!!!(uk)
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naive, in a sense, but the sentiment is often expressed hereabouts in
comparable ways, Patrick.
You may enjoy this:
http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012/b
ook/the-greatest-estate-on-earth-how-aborigines-made-australia/
On 22/08/2012, at 5:25 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Something I am tinkering with naïve what!!
>
> THANKS
>
> thanks
> for the visit
> thanks again
>
> but perhaps now
> the time has come
> really for you to
> go back home
> take your time
> don’t hurry!
> say a week or two
> or even a month!
> and Europe is not
> really so far away
> and Australia has
> good air connections
> but you stayed for
> over two hundred years!
> just a bit too long!
> sort of overdid it!
>
> so cheers and goodbye
> free tickets provided!
> bon voyage!
> ya.minyah!
> ek-u-ba!
>
> pmcmanus
> r140
> dedicated to the aboriginal
> inhabitants of Terra Nullius
> ek-u-ba – a Kutthung - Aboriginal word meaning 'Goodbye'.
> ya.minyah -a Wiradjuri -Aboriginal word meaning 'Goodbye'.
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