Oh, I apologise - or my Snap does - for misleading you. The outdoor dunny
is there, and workable plumbing installed, but it is our third loo,
probably only to be used at party time when too much beer has been consumed
and the gentlemen need a constant pit-stop ... It has a wonderful red rose
growing in its corrugated iron ceiling at present, which I think I
displayed on my blog a week ago.
The toilet I referred to is actually in a back bathroom with a small window
near it - and the late afternoon sun does come through at just the right
angle now and feels good on my left buttock as I squat. But your original
reading is probably more 'poetic' and improves the poem <g>
Who writes the poem most, writer or reader?
Andrew
On 22 November 2012 10:09, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> enjoyable, Andrew.
>
> as for outside loos, have just stumbled on this:
>
> These days, he says, he collaborates as much as he works alone. In the
> Bergers' garden in the Alps is a small, rather decorative outside lavatory
> that houses a photographic gallery of visitor-collaborators including Simon
> McBurney of Complicite Theatre Company (who is also godfather to one of
> Yves's children), Tilda Swinton and Michael Ondaatje.
>
> from a not bad interview-profile -
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/23/john-berger-life-in-writing
>
>
> On 21/11/2012, at 10:58 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
> > What I have noticed mainly in this town
> > is the lack of traffic lights, the polite
> > motorists on the round-abouts,
> > and the way white cabbage moths
> > flock in their hundreds like
> > petals blwoing in the wind.
> >
> > Ahh, country people are so
> > kind and friendly - and slow
> > to serve. No rush. This is
> > the bush without cattledogs
> > and station-hands. You gotta
> > pick your spot for coffee
> >
> > and the kids still flash by
> > on their skateboards, per-
> > forming stunts and skills
> > that won't earn them a job.
> > I haven't learnt to hate
> > the Indian Mynah birds yet
> >
> > but the locals do. And I
> > love the way spring sunshine
> > shines on my arse as I
> > sit down to shit in the back loo.
> > It's the simple things in life
> > that make each day enjoyable.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Undercover of Lightness'
> > http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> > 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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