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Frostiest-haired that's me ! Cheers Bill -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton Sent: 25 November 2014 20:34 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: The Day Bob Hawke* Rolled By Surveying sculpture at McClelland Outdoor Gallery, eyes down, appreciating Smalls, a line of tiny metal personages arranged in sand, when a slight kerfuffle behind announced the presence of a trolley, golf cart really, ferrying three snowy-haired types around the exhibits. Frostiest-haired front passenger hunched and half-listening to his ferryman and guide while his eyes fished about was Robert James Lee Hawke, whose golden Nugget leather mug tricked my recognition receptors. I don't know this man at all. Perhaps the surprise was seeing that fleshy puppet in open air. Emerging from behind celluloid, there in sun, all unscreened by tv. Before anyone, even if they had felt inclined, so much as Hail Bobbed, the cart rolled off behind a bush and Bob, stepdad apparently, of an exhibitor, was gone. bw 26.11.14 * Australia's 23rd Prime Minister, 1983-91