ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Fightin' Writin'

Whether you write of the bush or the city
No need for your verse to be proper and pretty;
Ya know it’s a fact in this game there’s no money
So be disrespectful and bawdy and funny.

See that is the beauty of writin’ in verse,
For money will stifle, yeah money’s a curse;
Ya see on your writin’ sweet bugger all’s ridin’
So say what ya like - give the righteous a hidin’.


© Dennis N. O'Brien, 2012

...yeah Dennis, I always reckoned you and I would get on OK...

Guy Clark wrote a song called 'Cold Dog Soup'.

The chorus begins like this:

"Ain't no money in poetry,
That's what keeps the poets free...
But I've had all the freedom I can stand."

Love it.

and throwing off the restraints of political correctness aka stupidity in many instances is remarkable liberating.

Thanks Ross, Stephen and Maureen.

Please come and visit me in the gulag.

P.S. bring pens and paper.