Kit Kelen #1348 - on country

1348

on country

the argument

the other poem for Kerri

on

because you won’t fall off

country has extent

it’s not a thing you’re swimming in

I learned that

though there are a couple of other kinds

the ‘tis of thee’

and the bush, not Sydney

it’s in you like language

if you’re its

in country might be more tuneful

you won’t fly over the thing

it’s waiting waiting

till you’re there

that’s something you’d feel

if you were first

knew the love

and owed the care

under country all end up

in some kind of roundabout way

otherwise up in the air

be smoke for a bit

then settle down

no it is on  

for young and old

most of all because

although the bastards tried and tried

you just can’t switch it off