From “The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever” by Les Murray:
To go home and wear shorts forever
in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate,
adding a sweater when winter soaks the grass,to camp out along the river bends
for good, wearing shorts, with a pocketknife,
a fishing line and matches,or there where the hills are all down, below the plain,
to sit around in shorts at evening
on the plank verandah —If the cardinal points of costume
are Robes, Tat, Rig and Scunge,
where are shorts in this compass?
Continued here.
The Dish 