Welcome To The Outback

Poetry Jam






i dont know
how they manage it

because you never see
a coloured face
in the village






these pockets
of anglo saxony
still exist
in rural areas of
the wide brown land

home to the outside dunny




makes one aware of
being alabaster white



grateful
to be spared
a foreign dodgy surname

lucky
to  be able to reproduce the
flat squawk of
a strangled cockatoo

yes - the aussie drawl

( no worries with
flicking the switch for this one)

lucky to be an accomplished
impersonator  flashing
a penetrating menacing stare
with hands on hips
warning the outsider
who has  come likely
to steal the silver and
murder us in our beds

- to back off

(never managed to do this one
and keep a straight face)

all the above
being an essential
in the first aid kit
to survive the outback