My Father's Island by Adam Dudding

Author:Adam Dudding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Victoria University Press

How apologise? And how attempt to explain how I’m flogged to death with work, kids, mortgages, bad debts, overgrown wilderness of half-an-acre, house powdering to dust, drainage boards, councils demanding this connection, that money – don’t use that septic tank, that well’s polluted; how Lf is thrown together desperately late time after time squeezed between the routines of proof-reading, listening to every bastard under the sun who’s got a complaint, sub-editing putrid, nonsensical ‘histories’ by descendants of deckmen from the ‘Charlotte Jane’ or whatever it was called.* Over the Bridle Path we come again and again; how the book-length manuscripts pile up behind me – all the poets (and others) who want books out and who I’m too soft-hearted to say ‘No’ to until I’ve read them, and sat on them and sat on them hoping for a miraculous new world where everybody who wants work out can achieve this thru Dudding’s fleshless hands.

Impossible to explain, so I shan’t attempt to. Five kids and another knocking and I don’t even have time to sing them ‘Kevin Barry’ [. . .]

Woe, woe and more woe. We’re getting old, but we’ll live I think. Spring again here, but the only signs of libido around is the grass growing.

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