Bought 'n Doubt, Brought 'n Drought Poem by Douglas Scotney

At the age of 67
I read that Wriothesley,
the dedicatee of Shakespeare's
'Venus And Adonis',
should be said Rizley.

In my early teentimes I had read
that Ruthven, Rivven is said.
It's the main street of Toowoomba -
Qld*, Australia -
that wags had called Ruffren for years.

Even earlier, in the car,
outside The Royal on Ruffren,
I consumed a cherry cheer*
that dad had bought and brought out -
and gone back in and downed a beer.