Poetry

My Eternal Captain

(Joe Byrne, a member of the Kelly Gang, died at the siege of Glenrowan, aged twenty. His body was strung up after death for photographs.)   The photo that you see of me is not me. I lived my life in brotherhood little else to do apart from opium and horses cows and stars   the earth revolved round him and I am dead. That photo is not me. I’m the one who shot my best friend in the face I’d loved him since we were small we thought we could always do it all and did. The photo that…

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