Barnyard Chorus

Poets in performance various readings bring your own... poems waged four dollars students unwaged three dollars... participatory theatre avant-garde Aucklandisms intellectuals artists in feeding frenzy Bohemianism Ponsonby style like-minded people care to manicure nail literary pursuits urban artistic acceptable Bullerite from sticks wanderer adventurer vagabond would not beg a bone rejecting provincial aucklandisms contemporary herd mentality no time for provincial kiwi poetry... what’s happening in Ponsonby on exclusive marae Maori models therapeutic environment inverted fables popularism promoted guruism pardon me while I leave farmyard mentality an interactive world problems social race interconnected awaits literary inspection upon foreign shores multi culture get realism Bohemianism Ponsonby style like-minded people such poets artists are provincial chickens scratching out bare spot upon dusty barnyard floor all hail hen house clucking out time of day for a few thrown hand fills of swiftly swooped upon gobbled up grain... Copyright © Terence George Craddock Written in June 1999 on the 6.6.1999.