STEFANIE BENNETT

 

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Somewhere… propped up against
The mythical Black Stump
Lies a goaded
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That has nothing to do with
Lightning sash,
Heaving ash, or
Frankincense.

 

No crow will peck the scant
Italics out
And so it stays,
Beeps and glows

 

"- The bloody water-bag’s
Full of flies
And critics,
Baz…"