Golf

• Pacey Popp-McGovern, Grade 8, Burnside State High School
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition

What is it – this royal and ancient game
That gets in your blood and under your skin?
That invites in men’s hearts a peaceful aim
Till you shank one and your head starts to spin!
Not just a dame for sadists and man-boys,
Though it helps if misery becomes you:
New graphite, titanium and steel toys
Vex me slowly but what am I to do?
I am hooked – addicted to the flagged green,
And no persuasion can my scourge deny:
No finer joy (with pants on) has there been,
But take my wife before my clubs – or DIE!
To all you gals who would have us not play
Hear this… ‘tis the fairway or the highway!