Ivan Donn Carswell Poems

I dunno if I’m being ridiculous
but the term “un-Australian” is
as un-Australian as our origins allow.
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so what do you do
have another beer, stir
the bolognaise or shoot
something? You can try
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coffee’s a dream and warm
French bread compliments
where croissants will cloy a
sentiment already appraised
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if I have learned anything it is
the savoir faire of silence – not
that I can’t say the right thing
but an innocent, all-over-in-an
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Let me say less fear of
contradiction or dissent
the only food that I’d
refuse would be the
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I just record these things, he
glibly said, it’s what I see; if
you can take a meaning then
that’s surely fine by me.
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I had wanted to say scathing words
about ideology germane to female
genital mutilation; I could not see
justification pertains for an act only
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a shaker of margaritas sipped
slow after a whimpered Sunday’s
soaking but no pain evident yet
he says to the swathe of damp
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Tonight I miss you
tears are just a blink away
robust thoughts of you which
kept an emptiness at bay
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i wanna be popular
she cries i don’t care how
i get there i wanna be top
of a tree with a star and
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