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you)

662256000 secs ago (more
or less) something happ
ened (say that it started
or stopped) a fusion (pro
& con) of cells became (was
already) being (called

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Richard Kelly Tipping  1969
Published in Soft Riots (University of Queensland Press 1972)
Notes: this was a 21st birthday poem for my then partner
Betty Ross. There were no calculators in those days. The
‘more or less’ is because I didn’t count the oddity of leap
years.



GO ARMY

the poster said        FOR CAREER
the poster said        AND ACTION
the poster said        GO ARMY
the poster said
the poster said
the poster read
the poster bled        GO ARMY
the poster said        GO ARMY
the poster said        GO ARMY
the poster said        GO ARM YE
the poster said        GO ARM MY
the poster said        GOAR MY OR
the poster said        MY ARM YE
the poster said        ROAR THE GO
the poster said        GOYA MR ARM
the poster said        YE ARM MY ARM
the poster said        MY ARM MY ARM

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Richard Kelly Tipping  1969
Published in Soft Riots (University of Queensland Press 1972)