Patrick, was it Eskimo Nell?
2010/1/27 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Cheers max I can see them
> but . 'They all had great hairy swivelling ears and wanted their noses
> rubbed'
> reminds me of old girlfriends
> P
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> Sent: 27 January 2010 11:13
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> Subject: donkey snaps
>
>
> Donkey Snaps
>
> 'Please Do Not Feed
> DONKEYS
> It Makes Them Bite and Fight'
>
> So we only snapped them, all seven
> in a corner of their big dry paddock.
>
> All ages, some skeletal, some tubby,
> some brown, some grey, most with a slender
>
> cross along back and down shoulders
> which reminds some of us of Palm Sunday.
>
> Their owner strolled down in her sunfrock.
> Would you like to be introduced to them all by name?
>
> We started with the handsomest, who went all
> round the Anglican Church last Palm Sunday.
>
> Two tubby ones are yes pregnant.
> By - ? That little runt of a donkey,
>
> behind all our backs... no, baby donkeys
> will not be given away or even sold.
>
> And *her* name is Alison. She had donkeys in England
> after seeing how they are treated in Morocco,
>
> standing fully loaded in the sun for hours.
> Began rescuing them in Sydney, and now
>
> has moved to Victoria - Barkers Creek.
> Yes, she knows 'The Donkey' by G.K.Chesterton.
>
> It's in all the donkey books. I said I sang
> it once at a school concert - she didn't ask to hear it.
>
> The weedy male donkey put me in mind of D.H.Lawrence
> as if he'd impregnated a couple of Friedas.
>
> Kept this to myself. They all had great hairy
> swivelling ears and wanted their noses rubbed.
>
>
> Max Richards
>
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Andrew
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