Joe Lake's Comments and poem

As you can see this is our 100th gazette we have produced to further Tasmania’s culture.

        On Sunday afternoon, October 28, at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery we will have An Afternoon With Poetry And Music with the BRAG Boys.

First Love

A beautiful woman

Came to his country town to stay at the local hotel.

She wore hot pants with legs up to her armpits

And wore a breast-enhancing blouse.

She had the face of an angel.

The young boy was in love.

He walked, unfocused, on clouds for days.

His mature friend said,

“Take $50 to room twenty-nine at the hotel.

But beware, Nietzsche was told of girl germs,

Went anyway and died of it in an insane asylum.”

The boy answered, “I don’t have $50.”

“Good,” his friend said.

© Joe Lake