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i Why don’t you go and play outside less a question than a Mum instruction to Jungle Jim-on-TV-watching me Before environment, there was outside Land of apricot trees, grass, concrete, sky Monochromed eyes adjust blinkingly to colour Pick up a footy from under the clothesline Bounce it a few times. What would Bomba do? Where are the swinging vines? ii Tarzan lived outside, even slept in trees I felt more outside watching him and safari-suited men with pith helmets than in the backyard Ah-woo, ah wooh woo wooh mysterious deep African jungle sound I was later told was a kookaburra But ex-Olympian Johnny Weissmuller did all his own swimming stunts and patented his yell for all Tarzans to come iii Backyard cluttered with excess from inside What’s this cracked tabletop doing out here? Best deal with it with this old hammer Now what? Bit junglier down the side Ah, fuchsias. Tear off a branchlet Fold it near the flower, aim and shoot! In between the tool shed and the garage squelch through solid Wandering Jew to the fence - end of my outside iv How did that marble top get smashed? Dad demanded, after work Just going outside to play, Mum bw ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1