Audio: Brisbane Love Poems

Brisbane Love Poems (audio by Graham Nunn & Sheish Money)

1. Brisbane, how I love
    your pastel-painted sunsets

2. I have seen G.W. McLennan
    walking the streets of your town

3. Prostitutes sweating on street corners
    like strange, erotic parking meters

4. A young musician wearing beautiful
    dark glasses, inhaling the scent
    of quarter past four in the morning

5. The skull of a cat nestled in the gutter
    after a big rain

6. Windows shining in lonely streets
    like artificial flowers

7. Pigeons picking over the remains
    of a broken love affair

8. And still-born poems waiting
    at the doorstep wrapped
    in filthy newsprint

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29.11.09 — Diane Andrews

One year ago I was cleaning
One year ago I was cleaning out a decesased estate in the West End - housing commission, a lonely city dweller and a close but distant family member. I walked up Boundary St every day past the Cuban cigar shop - where i got my morning pep talk. Your poem makes me feel like I am walking those streets once again, past the lonely lizard sculpture and the doss houses and soup kitchens. i have seen inside the life and came out wanting. I am going to have to say 'copyright' on this comment as it just sequed into my poetry file
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17.09.09 — GB

I love the way you write
I love the way you write about Brisbane!
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06.07.09 — Seduction Sequence

interesting and odd - just
interesting and odd - just my cup o' tea
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21.04.09 — dizzygotheca

i like how your words work
i like how your words work with the guitar :) (just surfing the pool) :) heidi
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17.04.09 — Gretchen Miller

cool guitar... i like it -
cool guitar... i like it - nicely recorded - good clear vox too...
it'd be great if you could put the lyrics up with your audio - just click Edit on your item and you'll find a text box there somewhere to insert them into
cheers
Gretchen
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