| | | not mine, but a recent conversation brought it back the other day and i have to share it - from one of my best friends, sadly now in oxford (while i am not!)
a great australian tribute - can there be a more nationalistic ode in all lterature?:
ode to my ute
o, ute!
you are so beaut
i cruise in you
to pull a root.
[sob... tears to my eye every time i hear it. so beautiful...]
 thanks tgl!
(i recall, fondly, a three hour [!!] dinner conversation with four lit grads, a lawyer and a mental health advocate dissecting this gem - o the essay we should have written!) |
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