FAMILY

• Kieran Douglass, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2011

My Uncle Don died
I felt like shit
So I felt Kerry's tit
Mum was giving me the silent treatment
She reckons I need more committment
Dad's moving away for a job
and I'm losing the Hume's mob
Angie gave me a big kiss
I nearly had a miss
Griz offered me an Ekky
I said I've already had breaky.

(written as the Character of Wayne in Scot Gardner's 'White Ute Dreaming')