Writing communities thriving in the regions. This is a small cross section of the range of energetic Surfing/alternative centre Byron Bay, south to the state’s 2nd largest city, Tour of northern New South Wales (an Australian state)… from the & overthetop dyed hair smoking cigarettes that are bad for my health whileĭrinking french cognac & me singing and kicking and showing everybody myĬollected from local writers following an October 2000 POETS ON WHEELS Let me go out when I'm a hundred and four gnashing my gums and conducting loudīeautiful music (beethoven would be good ) flashing my painted fingernails When I couldn't stand the sight of them while I was alive death Liked anyway none of their noisy children coming to say a last goodbye to me Wilting flowers death either with kind last minute words to people I never Yard and see the two pigs rummaging through the rubbish death no mrs swiftįrom next door & all the other neighbours downstairs making tea andĭrinking whisky while I'm up there gasping my last breathĪnd I don't want a holier than thou and free from sin surrounded by candles and In the end death or propped up with pillows so's I could look out over the Join you fred death (& him thin as a rake by then anyway) no blessing Starched sheets in a smells of pee nursing home calling softly I'm coming to (when I didn't ever have any rights in the first place) and not a between the Like that’ death not a curtains drawn with the sun going down in blackĪrmbands death nor laid out cold in the front room with background organ musicĪnd me stiff as the pipes no father o'leary giving me the last rites death Not die an old girl's death not in a rocking chair ‘doesn't she look peaceful Heather Brigstocke, Alison Coshott, Jean Frances,Įileen Jones, Paula McKay, Sheryl Persson
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