Jeffree Skewes #117 Festival of boots

They divide
you know
in code
pommy vs aussie
north-south rivals

men women boys girls black white
local national international
oi oi oi traditional
would you believe masters
verse abstainers

whose mother country
are we
anyway

the frontier versions union league
empire style spread out in a line
offside onside invading gaining
opposition ground

scrum play-the-ball
hit-ups no eye-gouging
cute inside passes
don't kick too often
five more tackles please
              vs
hybrid Aussie rules
Margrook culture alf
no-offside intermingled
umpires not refs get off
his back blow the whistle

punch the ball boot a torpy
hanging in the air
run-outa carpet
drop punt
ball up

just kick it!
cute shorts

no thanks
sport
makes me sick

neanderthal can't you see
get a life there's more
to days nights chasing balls

ad breaks have-a-bet
interrupting just for fun
our tragic armchair hero
drops the fuckin lot
no one's friend
family starve again

game day streamers
blue-jean barrackers
beanied kids painted faces

grans aloud n proud beaudy mates
suited-spivs trackie-dacky eshays
rainbow poets don't they know it

gangsters musos daggs bogens
fanatics hipsters loners ceos and
those who should know better
one hundred K in today ...
a record they say

got to do something
while we're here
gotta get in to get out
down on planet earth

pass it to me
pass it to you
another way
to be

in the team
fan them fires
fan hearts

worn on sleeves
seems like everyone's
tattoo fantasy

really though

love is in the heart