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Cubbie Worker 1955

Cubbie worker… So you worked on an out station on Cubbie… Saw the cattle tracks and also the sheep … You were only a poor boundary rider … On your straw bed the hut you did sleep… The Manager ate in the dining room …. Jackaroo's, silk shirts and ties were so neat… Station workers they ate in the kitchen… The rest of us on the wood heap… The Pommy overlords sent out the workers… Housemaids, Jackaroo's, the book keeper… So the Aussies were duffing his cattle… Thought Lost in the drought the grim reaper?…. Down near the river the old tribe had cut…. Left handed holes in the Coolabahs hides… These left handed men are gone, but… now in Goodooga descendants reside…. You saw the tracks went through the fence…. The boundary fence had opened wide …. The cattle tracks unbranded young Micky bulls…. And Heifers were side by side…. I’m Paddy the Aboriginal I can track.. The Bunyip or Porkypine…. Boss don’t never give me a fair bloody crack…. It ain't no business of mine….hey Don Johnson

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Date: 2/19/2012 12:13:00 PM
Don, Congratulations on your poem featured this week...have a Nice one...pd
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Date: 2/19/2012 9:01:00 AM
a potent message in short precise lines. that's my idea of poetry. Godd bless u
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Date: 2/18/2012 10:02:00 PM
I love this poem. I have spent two years or more in beautiful Sydney and l truly enjoyed reading you talented poem. A BIG CONGRATS on it being featured.
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Date: 2/18/2012 10:21:00 PM
The Aboriginals knew more than the boss just what was happening...
Date: 2/15/2012 12:50:00 PM
Congratulations on your featured poem. I enjoyed reading it.
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Date: 2/13/2012 7:49:00 AM
Very nice work. Congratulations on being featured by Poetry Soup this week...............S.Ronthorpe.
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Date: 2/13/2012 6:39:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Don. Love, Carol
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Date: 2/12/2012 7:59:00 PM
congrats DON on featured poem this week on PS luv.. great write to share ..
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