Poet to Chair ACT Cultural Council

nope i have it on a cd by raymond j bartholemew.

Hey bonfire..”marooned……..xmas” do you know the history of this verse… or is it from your memory of ‘hey hey its saturday’?

My poem –
Dan,dan,the garbage man,
Stole a can, and away he ran !

i dont have a problem with poets except that annoying guy at the gorman house markets who always trys to flog a poem when im having a coffee, but i dont think that my tax dollars should pay for them.

if they cant make a buck by being a poet, i dont see why the gummint should pay. following that logic, goodberrys would be gummint funded.

I guess the enormous amount that poetry and prose contributes to society justfies its support.

Reading a pithy piece of prose won’t prevent you from heart disease. The encouragement of sport amongst the masses is of far greater benefit to all than some of the out and out crap that passes for art.

Each to their own, but they hardly bear comparison. I enjoy a good piece of art from time to time but a doctor who’s a poet, I wonder where his true vocation lies?

I think government support of sport is a scam, but luckily we don’t just govern for what I like or what you like.

perhaps he is a ‘people’s poet’ a la Rick of the ubiquitous Young Ones.

Or in the words of Ford Fairlane:

“You’re a poet
and don’t even know it”

and poetry is just so relevant and popular that we need to have a council and chair and public funding ?

i wouldnt give these people a cracker.

the whole ‘arts’ industry is a scam.

the tedious introspective meanderings of depressed introverted social outcasts is of no interest to 95% of umm the world.

surely they can meet at the tradies club and exchange soliloquies ?

marooned
marooned
i am an island
i am an isthmus
i come from the bahamas
and i dont believe in xmas