Thanks, Patrick and Doug. I have been outside in the environment at Lorne
today where it rained on the beach which is OK by me in February, usually a
stinkpot weatherwise, as in stinking hot.
Bill
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 3:43 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> A nice bit of light verse comedy remembering Bill, with a bit of a charge
> in that line, 'Before environment, there was outside.’
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> Doug
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> > On Feb 18, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > i
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> > Why don’t you go and play outside
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> > less a question than a Mum instruction
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> > to Jungle Jim-on-TV-watching me
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> > Before environment, there was outside
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> > Land of apricot trees, grass, concrete, sky
> >
> > Monochromed eyes adjust blinkingly to colour
> >
> >
> >
> > Pick up a footy from under the clothesline
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> > Bounce it a few times. What would Bomba do?
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> > Where are the swinging vines?
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> > ii
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> > Tarzan lived outside, even slept in trees
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> > I felt more outside watching him and safari-suited men
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> > with pith helmets than in the backyard
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> > Ah-woo, ah wooh woo wooh
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> > mysterious deep African jungle sound
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> > I was later told was a kookaburra
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> > But ex-Olympian Johnny Weissmuller
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> > did all his own swimming stunts
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> > and patented his yell for all Tarzans to come
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> > iii
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> > Backyard cluttered with excess from inside
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> > What’s this cracked tabletop doing out here?
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> > Best deal with it with this old hammer
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> > Now what? Bit junglier down the side
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> > Ah, fuchsias. Tear off a branchlet
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> > Fold it near the flower, aim and shoot!
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> > In between the tool shed and the garage
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> > squelch through solid Wandering Jew
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> > to the fence - end of my outside
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> > iv
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> > How did that marble top get smashed?
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> > Dad demanded, after work
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> > Just going outside to play, Mum
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> > bw
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> >
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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