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Lee Emmett
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fifty years later
pool dignitaries
RSL and Shire
and local committees
celebrate achievement
community amenity
whole area uses it
a wonderful facility
kids once swam
from creek’s clay banks
with red fin and leech
in Yarriambiack
breast stroke and back stroke
mums and dads show
crawl and dog paddle
yabby biting toe
Warracknabeal resurgent
after World War 11
families growing up there
wanted better pool new
everyone fund-raised
in innovative ways
raffles and dances
and comic cabarets
Anzac memorial park
considered best place
to locate Olympic pool
brightened every face
trades people helped
and volunteers too
service clubs involved
banded as building crew
women’s auxiliaries
also played their part
local groups and schools
gave project kick-start
film footage of pool opening
shows whole town turn out
vital town asset
enjoyed by all about
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| STALEMATE |
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Lee Emmett
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STALEMATE |
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worse now: unknown was manageable now have to start again discover moving feast don’t even know where the table is everything’s changed except desire - basic feeling behind shadow creating absence silence is more than unendurable because no finality or closure - as it’s called nowadays just unwillingness to take steps towards mutually acceptable position so left again worse: knowing presence fearing approach
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