What do you expect in Queensland :-)
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 30 July 2014 10:51
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Subject: Re: Far North Queensland Motel snap
Yes perhaps this would be better than leaving reviews on Tripadvisor.
Bill
On Wed, Jul 30th, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> ring of truth, lots visualisable, and audible, a story that makes me
> flinch.
>
> Can you now circulate what you have written as a parting thank you gift?
>
> Max
>
> On 29 Jul 2014, at 9:07 pm, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Far North Queensland Motel
> >
> > High feathery leaves on a huge squat poinciana, slick green savannah
> > palms, overlooming date palms, canopy ferns, the odd spidery
> > white-flowered daffodil all visible from open-slid rear glass
> > wall-tall doors.
> >
> > Eye follows cracked path to crazy-paved saltwater pool surround. But
> > what's that two-toned, high-pitched whistling sound? There, again
> > and now a third time so no mere repetition, a pattern. Emerge from
> > inside,
> >
> > pad down to pool end. Thar she blows: pool filter, motel stay
> > wrecker, outside time spoiler. Mrs Motel offers to switch off the
> > timer and does, allowing brief poolside recline but tattooed hubby
> > reverses
> >
> > the procedure, filches out a few leaves, meets the eyes of no
> > bookreading guests, lurches off.
> > What, I suppose, can you expect for a hundred bucks a night? Do you
> > want courtesy with that?
> >
> > bw
>
>
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