Author: Margaret Mccarthy
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy | Jennifer Compton
- 09 August 2011
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There are weary smiling workers recovering from a Thursday night event. There are men planning this, the second weekend, with their family. There are married couples — one in the throes of giving up hope of being touched, the other working hard to ensure the weekend is chaste.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 30 March 2011
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It is raining. The ball has doubled its weight and is like kicking a basket of wet washing. And it's slippery, like grappling a live fish. The boys have kept this bayside game going many years, but I've only rocked up in the past couple. A ball hurtling towards me from on-high raises a new set of fears.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 04 August 2009
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The drops are not an army ... Each promised drop gives the roof .. a temporary rash which .. fades before the next gob hits. .. The water does not rain as a team.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 24 February 2009
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But there are times .. as I pass through half-life .. when I want to fly up where you are .. drift as far as the geometric pattern cuttings of the docks .. where the Yarra Yarra and the Maribyrnong meet
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Heidi Ross and Margaret McCarthy
- 20 May 2008
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It's hard to make things rhyme.. When you're running short of time.. But you try to relax.. Cut the TV, phone and fax.. Play your favourite instrumental, light a taper.
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