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    Original Clichés
    Original Clichés
    Original Clichés
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    Original Clichés

    By Rob Walker

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    ‘If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He’s been warned by the Speaker.’ – Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RN’s Poetica)

    ‘Rob Walker’s O

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGinninderra Press
    Release dateApr 20, 2016
    ISBN9781760411282
    Original Clichés
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    Rob Walker

    About the AuthorRob Walker is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level with the Yoga Alliance. He has studied yoga in India on three occasions and holds a fourth level of certification in Iyengar Yoga, a style he no longer subscribes to. Rob had a long and successful career in journalism in London and Canada before turning a passion for yoga into teaching twenty years ago. In 2001 he switched from writing on health care to owning yoga studios. His current focus and passion is training yoga teachers at his yoga college, helping them understand the principles and benefits of The New Yoga.

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      Original Clichés - Rob Walker

      Original Clichés

      Original Clichés

      Rob Walker

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Original Clichés

      Notes

      Acknowledgements

      Original Clichés

      ISBN 978 1 6041 128 2

      Copyright © text Rob Walker 2016

      Cover: Grandma Lyn and Rainbow by Amelia Walker

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2016 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      For all the dedicated English teachers of

      Cowandilla Primary (1958–65)

      and Plympton High (1966–70).

      No doubt they are all dead.

      May they rest in peace during their

      Eternal Long Service Leave.

      Thanks to journalist Chris Pash, who triggered the idea for this collection with his regular blog Cliché of the Week, which ran from 2010 to 2013.

      ‘Let’s have some new clichés.’

      Samuel Goldwyn

      ‘Only in art were there clichés; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.’

      Jincy Willett, The Writing Class

      ‘The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.’

      Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

      ‘It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.’

      Stephen Fry

      Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.’

      Alan Bennett, The History Boys

      Original Clichés

      An accident waiting to happen

      purposeless and alienated, a coexisting anomie and ennui

      a concatenation of the unrelated I lurk on street corners

      planning the intersection of vehicles.

      delayed by traffic light whim or

      leaving home moments earlier you leave yourself

      vulnerable to my coordinate points.

      I am the hay bale awaiting synchronicity

      of temperature and humidity

      to interrupt a firefighter’s dinner.

      I am the thrown match which may peter out

      or destroy the entire national park,

      the oily rag in the shed.

      I am the outdated nuclear reactor

      behind the low seawall

      waiting for the plates to move.

      I am the occasional freight train,

      the unsignalled crossing,

      the sleepy motorist.

      I am the barely submerged snag in the murky river,

      the sharemarket software trigger

      programmed to sell sell sell.

      I am the scissors in the hand of the running child

      the gun in the glovebox,

      gathering ions in cumulonimbus

      above the golfer on the fairway,

      the jet engine’s

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