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                                            a free for Rex Hunt

Warning to the reader:  This piece attempts to capture the zany commentary style of ex-Australian Rules footballer, Rex Hunt.     Teams:  Navy Blues v. Kangaroos.

            and Micky Martyn cops one high    but the man mountains
            pinged for an offence on The Cranium    and big Mick goes ape droppings
            as Mil snakes out a handpass to Spalding but The Golf Ball
            makes a pigs breakfast of a junior giraffe kick to Diesel
            intercepted by Fairley whos f a a airly good and says Thank your mother
            for the rabbits    but charging through is Schwass Sticker
who props    cops one in the mush for his pains
its over the shoulder boulder holder    gains
a free    and fires in a rip snorter to

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on his lonesome    who eats those    or ought to
                                                                               un believ able
the Sherrin wouldn’t stick and now the umpie falls
over again    get up you idiot    Armstrong The Moon Walker who swoops
on the pill    which spills to de Lulio    the working man’s half back flanker
hey stacks on the mill    now its with The Bow and Arrow Man in Archer
gingerly dancing through the pack like Fred Astaire
and transvestites the backside of the square
oooh    kicks a worm burner to the Arkansas Giant in little Rock
whos in more trouble than a wounded frog in a flock
of seagulls    but gets his kick in    has it got the . . .

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over Big Harry    McKernan    who flies like Clark Kent
golly gee whiz    that’s worth some Frequent
Flier points    hello there’s a box on behind the play
cream puff stuff    just waltzing    id say
the Dean’s kicked an absolute pearler    slicing with a nine iron
hit a photographer on the top of his nut    his bald pate is not shining
the boundary umpie throws in    Big Harry to Christou
wait for it    woof woof    you heard it live first on 3AW
a mongrel finger breaker to Sticks Kernahan    who fires
a hospital handpass to some poor sod masticating a pie in the outer
a comedy of errors old Bill would’ve been proud of    gee I
tell you what    the Shinboners are bombing them in
as Mitchell with the firebreak haircut is retarded by King
yer know     if they were dogs youd hose and shame them
Jeez    Special Fried Rice has been given some

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tell you what    if they don’t extract a digit shortly    oh Blakey
ball screams the crowd    up yours says the umpie
theyre playing safe football    must be wearing rubbers
not even the Man who walked on the Red Sea could do a grubber
like the footpad in Scholl    whos decraniumalised
hit hard    oooh    magnificent stuff    and grabbed by the strides
the Roo Boys are like mice under the blanket    you can keep some
of them in some of the time but not all of them in all of the time
now it’s the Big Fridge lumbering after the agate
he cant bend from the perpendicular    pick it
up son    pick it up    Roberts finally gathers the leather
in his buckets and launches a long bomb that sails through the
ether toward the Big Knacker in Horse Longmire and . . .

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who descends from the heavens with the air conveyance
Heaver brick hangs his scone    sorry son
if you don’t try and get the cherry
youre up the creek without a paddle    Carey
muscles bulging like cocoa pops    the Adonis
standing the mark is Koutou  fi  des
this for his fourth    and he will line up just inside the fifty
say look at the bluebaggers    theyre chewing without gum    can they lift
as Captain Courageous puts it on
                                                         its cir cum vol u tion
its a ballburster
                            higher than Joe Cocker
                                                                    its lofted
                                                                                    and wafted
                                                                                                        and pofted
  you beauty
                                                            Wayne Carey
has pinged it right through    the eye of a needle    hes killing em
and up go the two calicoes    as Pagans heroes come charging home


                                                                                                   Michael Small
footy seasons, 1995-6

[pub. Kickers and Knockers, MPU chapbook, Sept, 2005]

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