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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Australian Things
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Things Worth Seeing Things I Like To Seei"Clean sand pock-marked with raindrops, or ant-lion traps", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 21)
Things I Don't Like To Seei"My letter box that leaked and its brick pillar. Wet envelopes,", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 22)
Problems I Don't Mind Havingi"The once we drove the Ovens Valley was through a rainbow's", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 23)
Thank Yous and Thingsi""Freda Franks put the piano in my fingers, yet I never", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 24)
Things Never Regrettedi"Yes; though born this side of the world, I once wrote", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 25)
Things Always Regrettedi"The high cholesterol count and statistics on heart disease", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 26)
Annoying Things Annoying Thingsi"Bureaucrats pretending to be entrepreneurs. Tea bags", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 27)
Pleasing Thingsi"To read a letter from someone I admire. To reply,", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 28)
Things Best Enjoyed From a Distancei"Distance itself. Other people's children. Past times", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 29)
Things Best Enjoyed Close Upi"`If you're not enjoying life, you're not close enough to it.'", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 30)
Things that Can't Fall from the Skyi"Proud with medals they marched abreast, between bands", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 31)
Mechanical Thingsi"I shouldn't have asked! "That's the thing, isn't it?" he said,", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 32)
People Who Seem to Sufferi"Bus drivers. Migrant women outworking fingers as needles.", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 33)
Exasperating Thingsi"The continuous need, north of Geraldton, to stop in August.", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 34)
Memorable, But Bland Thingsi"What was I doing the day I had news of the coup?", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 35)
Spectacular and Memorable Thingsi"The sound of sub-woofer water pouring into Apsley Gorge;", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 36)
Twee Things Which Sometimes Have Merit or Provide Excitementi"There are black stones, smooth on Noah's Point, which,", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 37)
Twee Things Without Merit or Excitementi"I could see she was sad because her happiness slid", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 38)
Unexpected Things That Are Quite Acceptablei"If I climbed the Warrumbungles, where every rock has its own", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 39)
Unexpected Things That Are Unacceptablei"A motel bed in Dubbo that rolls my wife and me", Timoshenko Aslanides , single work poetry (p. 40)
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