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Author: Davey Dreamnation

Davey Dreamnation (1972–?) is an Australalian musician, vocalist, pirate and record-label owner who now lives ‘in the third person’. View his full biography.

  • Bush Studies 3

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    Empty shopfronts, Barellan Australia (2008)

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  • Gowayz ob LOL: Sawng ob Meh (O Hai!)

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    An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. LOLCats Bible, Genesis 1:6 1. O hai iz cebrayt meh, b in ur meh, An wut I as00m yu shal as00m, Fur iz atomm belons meh as srly belons yu. K. Iz loef an nvyt meh sowl, Iz leen an loef at meh eez…

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  • Song of Meh Self

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    I am an enigma to myself. B. O’D. noble wings I grow when I take meh self out of meh self but I find that too hot to handle for too long so I take meh self into meh self again & find there caverns of cold eclipsed fears & in there too some romans…

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  • Secret Lib

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    re: the australeum (a secret society cf. ww leaves of grass a love supreme in the court of love a library book of love a doodle bug a statute of love like some secret (liberation love democracy man love & all aboard! the love ship demos under the sign of libra it weighs at anchor…

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  • Texel, Noord Holland

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    Texel, Noord Holland (Lente 2008)

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  • 499 Comments and Counting!

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    As if the excitement of reaching 1000 posts wasn’t enough, now I’ve gone and got myself all shook up over what I calculate will soon by the 500th comment on this site (or the agglomeration of sites which is now [d/dn]). At a ratio of approximately 2:1, you’re obviously happy for me to crap on,…

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  • We Don’t Usually Tell …

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    the sun that he does well to shine & shines well … the moon that she illuminates the lover’s skin the stars that they remind us of all things past the sky that it does well to rain on our heads the planets that they give birth to angry gods the earth that it spins…

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  • Jethro’s Whitman Cabinet

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    ” … a cabinet was specially made. O’Dowd’s wife Evangeline had an uncle, Jethro Fryer, a carpenter who took on this task. SANDRA BURT i hammer nails & saw wood (to make his house of whitman his shadow cabinet not a coffin so much as a grave of words a grove within which they sit…

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  • “I Hate Myself & Want to Die”

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    I believe Fame once intended to give birth to a child. Some accident happened and I was the abortion. B. O’D. I look at what i wrote & feel shame rising like the flood my knees are weak & the lamp light’s glow flatters my corny poetics they’re simplistic & i hate myself no that’s…

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  • Cute

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    “… the cute and loving appreciation of my book and me by them in Australia has gone right to my heart.” —Walt Whitman, writing to Bernard O’Dowd This poem was first published online in Blackbox Manifold (UK) and later in print in Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2011). Läs på svenska.

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  • The First Letter

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    I am not going to praise your poetry to you B. O’D. BUT! you make the leaves & the grasses speak for themselves! great scald of demos i am yours! master bending down to meh! like a tree of man your mighty river flows through days your poems like a dripping tap & i a…

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  • Sunbathing

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    This poem first appeared in Overland (2008) and was anthologized in Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011).

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  • Words From the Master

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    Revered master Dear Walt, my beloved master, my friend, my bard my prophet and apostle – Dear Bernard My dear master! Your good, long varied and loving letter came yesterday and has been welcome and nourishing to meh. My dear master! I cannot reply properly, we have been treading air since Dear Bernard O’Dowd (and…

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  • Remembering Shelton Lea

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    My review of Diana Georgeff’s Delinquent Angel, a biography of Melbourne poet and raconteur Shelton Lea, has been published in the latest issue of Overland (#190). Interestingly, the editors have decided to put most (if not all) of the contents of the issue online, so you can now read the review in its entirety! Here’s…

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  • Greetings To Whitman

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    revered master dear walt, my beloved master, my friend, my bard my prophet and apostle my dear master my dear master my dear master my dear master and (may I say?) comrade my dear master my dear master B. O’D.

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