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jockrussell

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Can some1 tell me the poem 10 Mary Street by Peter Skrzynecki becoz i cant find it on the net.

I need it for the area of study, change in perspective...
 

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this is the poem;


For ninteen years
We departed
Each morning, shut the house
Like a well-oiled lock,
Hit the key
Under a rusty bucket:
To school and work -
Over that still too-narrow bridge,
Around the factory
That wasw always burning down.

Back at 5p.m.
From the polite hum-drum
Of washing clothes
And laying sewerage pipes,
My parents watered
Plants - grew potatoes
And rows of sweet corn:
Tended roses and samellias
Like adopted children
Home from school earlier
I'd ravage the backyard garden
Like a hungry bird-
until, bursting at the seams
Of me little blue
St Patrick's College cap,
I'd swear to stay off
Strawberries and peas forever.

The house stands
In its china-blue coat -
With paint guaranteed
For another ten years.
Lawns grow across
Dug-up beds of
Spinach, carrots and tomato.
(The whole block
Has been gazetted for industry).

For nineteen years
We lived together -
Kept pre-war Europe alive
With photographs and letters,
Heated with discussion
And embracing gestures:
Visitors that ate
Kielbasa, salt herrings
And rye bread, drank
Raw vodka or cherry brandy
And smoked like
A dozen Puffing Billies
Naturalized more
Then a decade ago
We became citizebs if the soil
That was feeding us -
Inheritors of a key
That'll open no house
When this one is pulled down.
 

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