Keith D Trestrail Poet Narrative

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Aussie Adventures of Skeet and Rich

In Land of Oz a thousand feet below
  was the morn on New Year’s Day,
and ‘neath a shining weightless wing
  the steep sea cliffs of Botany Bay.

We taxied through old Sydney Town
  with all wild expectation to come -
and when in Rome did as Romans do
  and made way for the colosseum.

There it was, that grand noble edifice -
  mortals did her sidewalks pound,
through those gates the arena roared
  inside the Sydney Cricket Ground!

And later that balmy night wandered
  after a cruel last ball Windies loss,
but ever closer drew those neon lights
  in the noisy heart of King’s Cross.
                        
Among the pushers, whores and vice
  the city underbelly we did follow -
bordellos, dives, strip joints and bars
  led Skeet ‘n Rich to take in a show.

At sunup the heights of Centrepoint
  with its sky towering crow’s nest -
the sun and sands of Bondi to the east
  and Blue Mountains in the west.
                         
Behold Sydney Cove in Port Jackson 
  where soldiers and mariners sailed,
the tall ships that her garrison moored
  carried convicts from Blighty jailed.

And upon pink granite cathedral walls
  a new age do new virtues espouse -
its topaz curtain glass and white sails
  shining on that grand Opera House
                          
Next destination the Capital Territory
  and a disappearing lake rivermouth,
over hinterland plains and gorges deep
  and Snowy Mountains to the south.

Yon Canberra to the Queensland border
  at the wheel of our V6 Commodore,
over “The Bridge” up the Pacific Highway
  on seawatch north to Maroochydore.
                          
To Byron Bay, Coolangatta, Surfers rode
  the onya adventures of Skeet 'n Rich,
and after a thousand miles at our backs
  it was a true blue hot son-of-a-bit*h!

And at journey's end up in Cotton Tree
  on Aussie time we did celebrate -
struth, with a tinny and sambuca shots
  we got fair dinkum pissed, mate!


           Written: April 1996

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