Tug Dumbly # 25 - The Way we Made Play From Industry

The way we made play from industry 

tube from a tractor tyre lashed under a door

made a raft for the creek,

slingshots sliced from the rinds

of those same guts of tyres,

billy cart knocked up from a fruit case

swivel crucifix and pram

to get you rolling on another  

childhood nostalgia jag

of making your own fun with

a bit of help from bungers and slug guns …

All those joyous ways to get hurt.

But I’m not speeding down 

that sheer suicide concrete driveway

into the lack of traffic today,

no siree, nor will you catch me

skipping through bindies

and sprinklers and patches of

maudlin mustard gassed lawn,

dead grass covered by a tarp too long …