Poem for the Day - Monster Fun at the Pier

Monster Fun at the Pier We came a distance for entertainment. Kids wanting action, dodgem cars, Leather Man above the ghost train, pythons twisting through skulls, jaws below the waterline invasive and mean. We left our parents’ smiles for a grinning clown, bolted through an arcade spitting silver as we talked. My brothers made a circular ‘o’ with their mouths pressed on scanty ladies stripping on cards. In their sweaty glow, your bothers spun...

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Poem for the Day - The Travelling Tent Show

The Travelling Tent Show The show had come to town. big-top, small caravans, a lion chasing its tail. It was an outing with hairy camels, no one familiar, only neighbour’s faces, some unknown. Except for Dracula out front, there were no zombies inside, no clattering chains to pattern a death. Only lipstick- clowns in toothless grins, twirling dogs in tutus. There was more excitement when tent pegs popped, when wall skirts collapsed in the...

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The Handsome Family in Perth

Thursday, 7th January 2010Woohoo! The Handsome Family has chosen to come to Perth in their Australian Tour. Great gothic/new country/blue-grass/Cormac McCarthyism style songs. Can't wait to see them this Sunday at the Rosemount Hotel, 6.00pm. THE HANDSOME FAMILY consists of Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics/also a poet) who live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They...

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