(June 15, 2019 at 9:39 am)Brian37 Wrote: Australia In B Flat, By Brian 37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brian37 on twitter)
In pitch black of night
3-D silhouette
The mangrove trees
Took me on a ride
I left Russel island
Proceeded westward inland
Next destination Chinchilla
To which I'd never been
They say the camera
Makes everything look bigger
Mad Max's Muscle car
Could never be truer
Long straight highways
Go on forever
Mesmerize
Driver fatigue will make you die
From Chinchilla
Onto Toowoomba
Then to Blackwater
Nothing more flatter
The occasional bump
Rolling hill or mountain
Were as sparse
As brown snake anti venom
But our trek
Northward
Took us to
A tropical island
Keppel colada
Spotting Echidnas
Rupert Holmes
Truly gave us
A reason
To traverse
Rural roads
Endless, flat, flat, fat
But what a fiat
What a reward
To end up in Yeppoon
And Keppel Island
Kookaburras
Glass bottom boats
Tropical drinks
Kept me afloat
Through the mundane
Flat, flat flat,
This is Australia
In B flat.
'There once was a man from Australia
Who painted his arse like a dahlia.
The colour was fine,
Likewise the design -
But the aroma? Phew! THAT was a fahlia.'
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
