Day 2 bush poem 2:
I AM YET TO FIND ANYONE who does not love
this week’s original bush poem by Long John Best from his anthology, Tall Tales
available in paperback and eBook. To me the poem is about loss, loyalty, and
doing the right thing. You might see something else in it.
Long John Best :
An old letter written to a Publican and
his response. I now know him to be Paul Nielsen, mine host at The Tatts Hotel
in Winton., Queensland.
Hotel Letter
Dear Sir,
We wish to stop at your hotel, we will book
in for a week,
If you can only grant me, the permission
that I seek
