All roiund sportsman
and Test cricketer Tom Wills
modified the rules of rugby
and created a new game
of Australian Football.
He was later instrumental
in forming the Melbourne Football Club
on August 7, 1858 –
which was the same year of the code’s
first recorded match,
between Scotch College
and Melbourne Grammar School,
in which Wills was the umpire.
That was fair enough
because he made up the rules.
When the game began
the large crowd cheered
and yelled out: Kick it!
Pick it up and kick it!
His father was killed by Aborigines
when Tom was a teenager
Year later Wills became the manger
of the first Australian cricket team
to play in England -
and all the players were Aborigines.
Tom Wills stabbed himself
three times in the heart
with a pair of scissors
as he lay drunk in his bed in Heidelberg
in 1880 - he'd become an alcoholic
and he couldn't kick his habit.
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Well, at least tell me when it's done!!
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done?
Ok, it's not finished, but I've had more ideas for this poem and have worked on it a little. I think it will need a lot more work, but at least it's a start.
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I know this says "do not comment or read", but I couldn't help reading what it was you had posted...Perhaps it is just my intuitive nature and I am far more curious than I know myself, most times. I really enjoyed that last stanza and I wanted to make that known. I will be checking back to see how this takes shape, when I get a moment.
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You're a bad puppy J.
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I know...I know.
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