Buffalo grass actually, I've just remembered, Pat.
Bill
> On 15 Oct 2014, at 5:48 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Cheers Bill sounds like your teeth are having a sharpening up-paspalum ? new
> to me
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 14 October 2014 21:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Negotiating with Management
>
> Dreamt a snake would clearly
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> cut me off before I wriggled
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> across itchy dry paspalum
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> to the safety of brick steps
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> on Grandma Beat's front veranda.
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>
>
> So doubled back to confront,
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> to parlay. I'm only eight.
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> Can't we cut a deal here?
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> My Bendigo Crossroads.
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> Negotiated.
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>
>
> And that pact has dogged me
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> in all subsequent dealings
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> with authority. Sure, I remain
>
> unbitten but whatever that
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> offer comprised, toothlessed me.
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>
>
> In some ways it's been good.
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> I know I'll never be snake.
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> But the pound of flesh exacted
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> set up a chain of compromise
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> that feels dirty to this day.
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