Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BULLOCKY'S LOVE EPISODE, by A. F. YORK


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THE BULLOCKY'S LOVE EPISODE, by                    
First Line: I sez to her - 'gee, boxer, gee' - behind the shed last night
Last Line: Agree.'
Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Horses


I SEZ to her—"Gee, Boxer, gee"—behind the shed last night,
"Old girl," I says—"Come up, there, Star! I'll make you pull all
right!"—
"I've saved a quid or two," I says, "and if you'll only say"—
"Gee, Boxer! Star! Come hither, Spot! Gee, Boxer! Come 'ee way!"—
"We might get"—"BRANDY! Bless my soul, such bullocks drive me mad!
I'll take the livin' hide off you in strips, I will, my lad!"—
"So, what d'yer think, old girl," I says, "just tell me fair and straight,
I'm tongue-tied like and"—"Holy Frost! they've caught the bloomin' gate!
You cross-eyed, jumped-up, wobblin' swine! What's set you all astray!
It's no good, boss; they can't go back—though there'll be hell to pay!
They can't back fifteen ton of load—the post must come away!
Stand back in case the rails should fly—stand back there up the bank.
I'll rouse 'em with the bleedin' butt along the bleedin' flank.
Gee there! you blank, dash, asterisks!—you sons of blankers! Blank!
There goes the boss's bran'-new gate!"—and then she says, says she,
"I can't think, George"—Gee, Boxer, gee!—"what you can see in me;
But if you're talkin' splice," she says — "Whoa, Brandy!"—"I'll
agree.'





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