Letters from Australia

30 Aug 2023

I never did the whole "travel to Australia for a year to find myself" thing. But I've several friends who did do it.

In this poem, I've documented some alternative facts about Australia. The "facts" come in pairs- — there is an intro that is factually true or at least plausible (e.g. they do have a mammal that lays eggs), followed by a punchline that aligns with the first statement but is false (e.g. the egg-laying mammal isn't the koala). So the narrator has picked up some true factual information, but corrupted it with detail that makes it false.