Danksta Downunder – Poem

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Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou open mic
AT THE LIBRARY OF INVENTED LIVES
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Until there is no more renewal
and the last loan of life is overdue
the Library browser is reading fuel
with invented lives we look,up to.
Artists, dreamers, creators of all
kinds who fire up our imagination.
Thinkers, writers, poets who call
us all in to be aware of inspiration.
For me life began at three years old
when Mum Cora taught me to read
and books insulated against the cold
and terminated in my mind like seed.
Dad Jock believed in no censorship
and being free to follow curiosity
and find stories that offer mentorship
while setting out towards virtuosity.
Now on the cusp of semi-seniority
having devoured thousands of tomes
and faced off futility and obscurity
all that I’ve been transmitted to poems
until there’s no more time for any word
and no pages left for me to turn towards
when straying off behind the daily herd
as the last line ends the story of rewards.
Reading on is reinvention
taken to the next dimension
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Hamish aka Danksta Downunder aka Je Suis/I Am Joe Goulg is the convenor of the Spoken Word @ Bar Oussou open mic event happening from 730pm on Wednesday 30 August during the Sonic Poetry Festival. He is Secretary of the Melbourne Poets Union and convener of open mic spoken events at Bar Oussou in Brunswick and Voodoo Love Child Speakeasy Bar in St Kilda. He is also the caretaker of Roy the Cat Resort and Retreat in Elwood and a reincarnation of hobo pest and poet Joe Gould (USA 1889-1957) who died in New York o the very same day Hamish was born in Sydney. He has published 2 chapbooks All Other Destinations and The Broken Candle and has performed at various events across Australia, USA, Canada, England, France, Turkey and Singapore.
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