At
4pm an
afternoon tea of
greens.
The
rabbit she munches
grass
of this land
new
green after rain,
the
rains that
ended
the drought.
Her
kind they did come,
a few little rabbits
for
sport in 1859
for
an Englishman farmer
he be named Austin.
Just
24 rabbits
they
came to Geelong
for
play.
Her
kind
they
escaped
and
multiplied like rabbits.
They
munched and they chewed
A
colony of rabbits
across
this southland
and
decimated
the
land
the
size of old Blighty.
Clearing
the land and
eating her host's food
She
greedily ate
and
bred.
Too
late now for
the introduced virus
Myxomatosis
and Calicivurus
to do their deed.
Her
rabbitting ways continue
today.
The
rabbit, so sweet.
So
Beatrix Potter.
She
pleasantly eats her
greens on this day.
The
land it is green
this
day as well.
And
distant the memory
Of
drought.
17th December
2011
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