BuiltWithNOF
Graham Catt

The Crucial Three

Liverpool, 1978

I saw The Fall twenty-eight times that year
listened to Pere Ubu and New York punk
spent my last penny on the Residents
and walked the seven miles home

all day long we talked songs and started bands
that broke up before they’d played a gig
we were too cool to risk failure or ridicule
prepared for fame in the safety of basements

on a borrowed bass, with Wylie on guitar
just three notes and some warzone riffs
ripping off the Velvets and the Stooges
while Mac lay on the floor, singing to the sky

 

About the Poet
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I am a South Australian writer of poetry, short stories and children’s fiction. My work has been published in magazines and journals around Australia, and has been broadcast on radio. I have also been widely published on the World Wide Web in such e-zines as Disquieting Muses (USA), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), Limestone Magazine (UK), The 2River View (US) and Carve Magazine (USA). I am a member of Adelaide’s long established Friendly Street Poets, where I read regularly. My first collection of poems, Shooting Stars was published by Ginninderra Press in 2001. I also co-edited Friendly Street Poetry Reader 27, which was launched in March 2003.

Email:
cattg@optusnet.com.au

Website:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gcatt