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    Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent
    Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent
    Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent
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    Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent

    By Kevin Densley

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    'Kevin Densley's Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent is lively as a string of firecrackers. Combining wry observations on the shortcomings of culture and politics with keen historical portraiture and a new kind of dense poetic squib - packed with a whole poem's charge in a few short lines - the collection crackles into lif

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateSep 29, 2023
    ISBN9781761096174
    Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent

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      Please Feed the Macaws...I'm Feeling Too Indolent - Kevin Densley

      Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent

      PLEASE FEED THE MACAWS…I’M FEELING TOO INDOLENT

      KEVIN DENSLEY

      Ginninderra Press

      Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent

      ISBN 978 1 76109 617 4

      Copyright © text Kevin Densley 2023

      Cover image: Twilight on the Terrace, Paris by Julius LeBlanc Stewart

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2023 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      CONTENTS

      Please Feed the Macaws…I’m Feeling Too Indolent

      Acknowledgements

      Also by Kevin Densley and published by Ginninderra Press

      PLEASE FEED THE MACAWS…I’M FEELING TOO INDOLENT

      Paris, 1877

      after Twilight on the Terrace, Paris, by Julius LeBlanc Stewart

      ‘Please feed the macaws,’

      she said to me,

      while reclining on her chaise longue.

      ‘I’m feeling too indolent.’

      We were on a wide stone balcony,

      overlooking the City of Love.

      She fluttered a pale hand

      towards a pair

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