Sunday, July 19, 2015

This Is Not A Poem. It's A Story/Art Piece. It Really Happened, Too. Comments

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There I was, sitting on the forest floor with the flames burning in my
fire pit, roasting goat meat, when a mean Australian officer pounced on me and offered me death just because I was on his land. Dirty landed gentry! Anyway, the goat too was illegal for me to kill and eat because everything that spawned on his property was, too, his property. Dirty landed gentry! So, I had to jump in the billabong that
was right next to my camp, but he jumped in there after me, trying to strangle and or drown me. I did drown, and now I haunt the area where the scuffle happened. They wrote a song about it, called 'Waltzing Mathilda.'
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Lyn Paul 19 July 2015

Up jumped the swagman, sprang into the billabong You'll never catch me alive said he' By Banjo Patterson What you have found, valuable? You Never know. Thank You and I hope you loved Australia.

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