How about that Matt Buckels elegy to the dead Hyde Park dugong! We will never see it, as Buckels has pulled out of the race to be chief beret-wearer at Vincent. It seemed Buckels assumed he’d be able to feed the kids, take out the recycling, wash the pillow slips, AND change the light bulbs of 31,000 ratepayers. Sad news. I can’t see Emma Cole churning out the tanka on Vincent’s Built Form policy. This year’s council elections aren’t about who you’d like to have a drink with – they’re about who can put the best words in the best order. Beware anyone thinking of trying to fill Buckels’ shoes, because Sally Palmer in Bayswater sets high standards. When Goat Skull Palmer shares her work, others are moved to rhyme too. A chichen in the pot of every commended haiku writer? I look forward to hearing that announced at the Perth Poetry Club by candidates. 
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Please reconsider, Duke! In this age of rhyming Councillors, a Mayor Buckels is what this benighted town needs.
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Was it the Seinfeld mural that broke his spirit?
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Matt finish.
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El pueblo unido jamás será vencido !
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“No concrete batching in our street!”
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Can they find fault with this decision , specially Ransberg’s commitment to the yartz ?
http://decisions.justice.wa.gov.au/SAT/SATdcsn.nsf/%24%24OpenDominoDocument.xsp?documentId=9923753DE6B9E87948257D16002614D7&action=openDocument
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“redundant driveways”.
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Palmers poem is full of subtly which only emerges after a number of readings. The seemingly reckless disregard for rhythm and metre turn out to be a metaphor for the disruption of the natural order, as artificiality replaces the real.
Repeated use of rhyming a word with itself, normally the hallmark of a lesser poet, here establishes the inevitable monotony of the lives of the factory workers, whose soulless beings contrast with the vibrant inner life of cockatoos.
Finally, whereas some might see the random use of capitals as forcing a meaning onto a reader thought to be too stupid to get the point, in fact represent the planning process itself, as freedom to make decisions on an individual level (here, the meaning of a poem) is replaced with an order determined in advance, before the poem/planning application was even submitted for public gaze.
TS Eliot had a similar technique, but Palmer shows how it really should be done. Highly recommended.
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Should have called it “Lament of the Black Cocks'”
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And in other news, Clive James has yet another piece in the Gruniad about his impending death. Yet incredulously, the cunt’s still alive.
This pisses me off no end.
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Worse than John Farnham.
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Hasn’t it been 3 years since it was imminent? Richard Neville has been and gone in the meantime.
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A parlor pink
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Worse than John Farnham
Careful. You’re insulting Mark Mcgowan’s record collection.
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shorter campaign than Mal Meninga
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