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First day of winter
And there is rain
But we each meet up
& lap our suburb-
all our kids at school
& now it's time for us
to tone & sex up our
post-birth bodies.
Up the steep hill
Gasbagging
raving on
all the way.
Home later
music
Hot drink
House jobs
Read. Go-Betweens'
music on
An interview on the web
of Rick
Farley
listened to-
A voice recorded last year
A voice no more.
I don't know what to say
about Grant McLennan
& Rick Farley
dying last month. May.
I just think it should be said
That the Go-Betweens' music is on
& Rick Farley's voice can be heard
but it is no more.
Vanessa Jones lives in Australia and can be contacted
on: post4@bigpond.com
Another
Laff
By ROBERT DAVIES
Stone dead in his Lazy Boy
laughter pours from the TV
all over him
and it isn't funny
the inventor of canned laughter says
as he ascends to heaven
or at least the smell of him
A Man Who Has Done Something
says his soul
or at least his would-be-thought
curling upward like smoke
for it wasn't too long ago
when another obituary
from another town
said the dead one had known
the voice of Bugs Bunny
making the inventor laugh for days
perhaps that very laughter
having weakened his heart,
the man known for his Laff Box,
for his own as the obituary said
hearty laugh.
Life is better in Iraq?
Since the US attacked
Evil Saddam now gone
Just the soldiers marching on
Marching on through everything
Signs of past diminishing
No more Iraqi history
No more un-westernised misery
Life is better in Iraq?
30% more children no longer lack
Medicine, food or supplies
No longer suffering since they have died
The increase in childhood mortality rates
Is that evidence that we are great?
That our presence is making a difference?
That Iraq needed our interference?
Life is better in Iraq?
Despite the figures that back
Saddam as a lesser evil
Hundreds of thousands of dead people
Torture condoned by our leaders
What we did in Haditha
Over 15,000 Iraqis imprisoned
But only 1.5 percent convicted
Life is better in Iraq?
Oil revenue not put back
But cash used to abundantly fund
The US Embassy to come
And Halliburton subsidiaries too
With record profits that benefit few
Oil prices soaring high
Cartels rejoicing as children die
Life is better in Iraq?
As bodies on piles are stacked
Kidnapping, rape and robbery
At record levels celebrating democracy
No IV fluids or cancer drugs
Fewer children for mothers to hug
Less clean, safe drinking water
But an abundance of human slaughter
Life is better in Iraq?
Communal graves tightly packed
Diarrhoea, malnutrition, infectious disease,
Maternal stress, suffering and poverty
All increasing rapidly
To add to that figure of infant mortality
And 400,000 children suffering from
Protein deficiency wish we were gone
Life is better in Iraq?
The Bush administration clapped
As adviser Daniel Pipes expressed
His disappointment and distress
At "the ingratitude of the Iraqis"
"For the extraordinary "
"Favor we gave them" by invading
Their country and doing the liberating
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