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Category: Steven Herrick

So, we skipped Annabel, and discussed condoms. I said I liked the orange ones, and we ended our talk in laughter.

and I’m thinking as our bodies meet that I’ll remember this forever, and i just hope it’s for all the right reasons.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

poem, poems, verse

Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

adventure, farm, ran-out-of-petrol, stopped

He walks through the house of his past, hoping he’ll find the right door, hoping he’ll find the key.

house, key, past, right-door, walk

She taught me what’s important, and what isn’t. And I’ve never forgotten. And that’s what mothers do, I say.

i-ve-never-forgotten, important, mothers

I’m drinking away the exam results that don’t take me anywhere.

drinking, exam-results

She didn’t have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

answer, people-like-her, questions

People say the beach is the great equaliserWho are they kidding?Sit at Bondi and watch the boys flexAnd the girls walk bolt uprightIt looks like a nightmare episode of Baywatch.The true equaliser is the mountain coldAnd stacks of cold flung togetherMaybe then we’d listen to what each other is sayingInstead of checking out the best bods.And as I wrap another layerAround my Size 10I think of Jack’s favourite saying:“today’s tan is tomorrow’s cancer”I walk outsideAnd whistle at the wind.

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I’m sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing …

backroad, birds, kookaburras, laughing, lonely

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

father, looks-like-me, older

I walked out of his room sure I’d said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I’d said the right thing, for once in my life.

dad, father, for-once-in-my-life, say-the-right-thing