Francis Duggan Tropics Poems

Ageing in the Queensland tropics a long way from old Koroit Town
Where he was born and grew into manhood and where he lived when his hair was brown
He talks of people he knew in Koroit, Kirkstall, Tower Hill and Killarney to his mates in the pub at Mackay
The man from South Western Victoria from where he now lives far away
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The man from the warm northern tropics the lands of floods and drought
Is enjoying the cooler climate in the far cooler south
Only in his mid thirties sun wrinkles on his sun bronzed face
His slow drawl of North Queensland down here seems out of place.
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