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| Welcome to "Mind Twister For Loose Tongues" . . selected poems by Bruce McNicol . .CONTENTS |
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. . . . . . . . . . BEWARE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Green font = poems with silly words in them |
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| Adelaide | For the Festival State, July '86 | ||
| Australia | Not a land of Gullibles Travels, but a land of Oliver's Travels - Oliver meat pie 'n' sors. Oliver nuther tinny mate. | ||
| After Extensive Silence | What IS, makes such a thing impossible | ||
| Anger | From anger right along the continuum to unconditional love | ||
| Aria (Common Problems) | I have been a problematic twenty eight year old man . . . | ||
| Backyards From A Train Out Of Sydney | (Swimming pools) at five out of seven adjacent spawning dorms | ||
| Friends | I've really hurt him. I've promised not to. (Fair enough) | ||
| Gangstir | A silly poem |
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| Highbrow | Another silly poem | ||
| I Saw The Little Girl Tonight | Her father was a bully | ||
| Journey with a Midwife to a Midwife | My partner and I visited our pregnant friend, with whom I had shared house | ||
| Limbo | There's been a bit of a boon/in confidence spoons/ . . Silly of words, sad character | ||
| Mind Twister For Loose Tongues | Tongue twister as well. Six times quickly. Also very silly. | ||
| Old Lover, Old Friend | . . . but a new job led to different behaviour in public. | ||
| Owed to Tim Fisher | Remember the gun levy? I wonder what's happened to it? | ||
| On Feeling Betrayed | Love is so presious/rare alloy/valuable ally | ||
| Peak Hour | Flinders Street. "There's no air", I said to him | ||
| Power Playtime | The Treasurer we had to have, and other luminaries . . . | ||
| Probabilities | "Down a throamy little farnpit"
is definately silly. It's also a missed opportunity. How silly is that? |
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| Ready Or Not? | "She's a witch", and I was ready . .yum yum | ||
| Radio Say | Uncle Sam Says,"Listen to this". Uncle Sam says,"Watch that." | ||
| Relatively Speaking | She couldn't stand me gazing at her | ||
| Remember | Remember there is no time / like / the present | ||
| Rescue Remedy | Lloyd said, "what did you do with your frown?" | ||
| Stame Missakes | Oafran oafran oafa/ makum the stame missakes | ||
| Stockmarket Report | Thanks to David Hallett for the idea of "sweeping peace fears" | ||
| The Grangles | A Childrens' Book. . ." Grangles playing banjanophones/are not a pretty sight to hear" | ||
| The Mouse and the Beanbag | In which the mouse loses the beanbag to its former owners | ||
| "They Treat Me Like A Bitch On Heat" | We were making arramgements for our children to play. The men present gave murderous looks, but refused to speak . I had counted them amongst my friends! | ||
| There Was. There Is | There was another woman once who drove a Volkswagon | ||
| Tiren Farport | Tiren Farport soldiered badly. Someone shot 'im | ||
| To elevator music | Choirs of geese these days need throat lozenges After a hard days flight to the shops. |
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| Wishbone Wish | ". . . I wish I had a newspaper, to damned and to publish" | ||
