Teredo
Ship worms do to the hull of the old wooden boat what ageing does to the body of the old human being.
poetry
Also climate change
Cancer and bushfires have this in common – the earlier you can catch them the better the chance of a cure.
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Stay safe, my friends
Don’t give me a home among the gum trees when it is bushfire season.
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Dumbocracy
We’ve tried Anocracy, Aristocracy, Autocracy, Democracy, Gerontocracy, Ochlocracy, Plutocracy, Theocracy. Can we try Meritocracy now please?
Tell, a story
In the ancient city mounds of the Middle East, flat layers of mud, one on top of the other, are the squashed remains of houses and streets, flat like pages in a history book, the lives of people in each generation, reduced to a few inches of mud baked in a thousand years of Sun
Cockatoo dreaming
To White Cockatoos, Black Cockatoos must seem the stuff of nightmares. To Black Cockatoos, White Cockatoos must seem the ghosts of ancestors.