I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...
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I've never heard of a pademelon (is that how you spell it?) before. You lot have the maddest critters.
How did it behave? Scared of humans? Or came to you all when you called at it? Did you pat it? I just need to go to Australia to hug these animals; many of them are hugged by visitors in those centers (I see all these animal programs at Animal Channel).
It's a National Park, so you're not supposed to touch or feed the animals. Oddly enough, I respect of such rules