Poetry

Did You Effer?

Did you Effer Did you effer seen some leetle poodle dog Dat vas schnoodled oop so shnug upon a mat? Did you seen some sheeps in clover, or a hog Vhat could hardly valk around himself for fat? Did you effer seen a cat vhat caught a mouse? Or a […]

‘The Tiger Schnake’

‘THE TIGER SCHNAKE’   I vos working vit Bill Grady und Shack Wilson on de flat Ve shoushed abbot an acre oot vit Shemmy Bill und Pat Ve didn’t makes no vortunes, but vhat I vant to tell Vos about von pig tiger schnake, dat shashed me quick as vell. […]

Old Augie

OLD AUGIE (by Mark Schuster) Open the squeezebox bellows, parchment dry and stiff, Lift the stops, breathe back the lives of the aged pioneers Men and women, not forgetting the kinder Show us of modern times their ways. Slab hut, bread oven, shingle barns The patchwork of paddock, brigalow and […]