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My Faithful Old Bag - is a collection of Australian bush poetry by Shakespear Jack.
'In the Land of Plenty' about Rusty's Market won 2nd place aththe Bush Poets open competition Cairns Show 2006.
It's market day at Rusty's and mangos by the ton and cheap today Bring your five ton truck and cart them away And bananas so long they're sold by the metre. With big buckets of honey at so much per litre.
There are cooked prawns, bugs and muddies too But you can't buy steak from our kangaroo And watermelons so big, if you're not so dumb... Just roll them along like 44 gallon drum
There are pineapples so big with leaves so rough We now eat them with the tops on to prove that we're tough. With eggs and and cocnuts and carrots so long Marketeers weep in their beer as their carrots sell for a song.
There are buskers, and speilers and dozens of sheilahs White mice and black rabbits and nuns in their habits. Old sugar Daddies with walking sticks and knobbly knees. And a string of holes held together by a block of gorgonzola cheese
There was farmer Joe with heavy boots, straw hat and steel grey hair Wearing threadbare trousers in urgent need of some running repair Farmer Joe was always depicted as a hayseed from the sticks And with city folk in society he found it hard to mix.
Most fruit distilled will sell as boutique wine Then you have the bonus of grape from the vine The aroma is delightful and the taste divine
There are mountains of tomatos to be made into sauce Enough to top-dress the full length of our local race-course Victorians are the main users and abuser of our tomato sauce The only food they dont put in on is ice-cream of course
Yes we have birds by the score Like that jackass next door Please don't ask for a gallah For they're in the pub Upholding the bar
One behind dark glasses Putting up a smoke screen from his big big cigar Whilst the rest of the flock Just strumming along on their old guitar. |