Yr seriousness has spread over the parlour
   Like a goddam Cumulonimbus Incus
I stare at your broken heroes Nose
                 & Finger my soft Shillelagh

I am as Historically Fond of you as a pissup at a shipwreck
Or a brief détente between two unquenchable foes
What we want is an explanation not of charisma but of shipwreck whiskey
Which swells with charisma
   Become the excruciable arbiter     in a fancy dram
     Of dead to dying souls

Connoisseurship of the destruction of everything to make way
                                                                For Muttoncraft

On the High Monaro Plains
The desecration of the Snowy        Country and its lovelies full of heroin picks and holes 
Dalgety Dalgety
I think I want to walk to the bottom of Lake Jindabyne and live in the drowned town there
Make out with passing drovers
Thr little pussies biting thr bicycle seats

Quite out
Of my mind on Trucker Speed our adrenal gland seems to have taken its own
                                                                                                                      Captain’s Ticket
  Playing the throttle O
                              Tempertation!
   Drop me off at Rosie Wroe’s
Night riven with some bucolic brawl over the Cobargie Bridge
& the sweet-time ditty of a small-block Chevy
      S’it rides up and down the sacred mountain

In the exchangeable fluids of lovers comes
The melee of family demons
Let’s leave on each other a fresh Gorgoneion
A Dalgety bruise (masterpiece!)
   A Dalgety lovebite

Duncan Hose