Coral Hull: Poetry: The Secret Horses Of Peterborough: 28. Rex's Reptile Show Featuring Craig The Bearded Dragon

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CORAL HULL: THE SECRET HORSES OF PETERBOROUGH
28. REX'S REPTILE SHOW FEATURING CRAIG THE BEARDED DRAGON

This is Glendambo Roadhouse presenting; Rex's Reptile Show
featuring cruel glass tanks where if snakes could cry, they would.

Rex said, 'sometimes you don't know if you've been bitten,
three hours later your dead, apply tourniquet, don't suck poison,
don't want to stop or restrict flow of blood cause that's not where the poison is,
the poison is in the muscle tendons,
apply a tourniquet to whole area to hold the venom still while you get to a hospital,
venom attacks the nervous system.'

The snakes had tried to get away, but Rex bit them.

This is Glendambo Roadhouse presenting;
Rex's Reptile Show (for general good and public education).
See and Touch Lizards and Snakes.
View Some of the world's most venomous,
$2.00 per person.

Central Australian Carpet Python -
prefers to live in trees and hunts at night for small mammals and birds,
average length - 2 m, average glass case size - 8 ft by 6 ft,
clay bowl, large rocks, branches, very natural.

Comments Upon Learning;
'I hate snakes, the best snake is a dead one'
'EEERRR, YUK, GROSE, HA HA HA HA HA,'
and 'FUCK, LOOK AT THAT MOTHER!'

Information sheets provided on;
where the snakes usually live or would live if they could,
they've been in those glass tanks for 2 long years,
are removed for the show when the coaches comes in,
Western Brown Snake, Blue Tongued Lizard and Olive Python.
I asked, 'hey, don't they bite you?,'
Rex replied, 'they haven't had their fangs removed,'
the show lasted for twenty minutes,
it was just like a stupid confession,

'we feed them frozen rats and mice from adelaide, thaw it out, wriggle it in front of them,
then they grab it and crush it,'
very valuable information,
Red Bellied Black Snake - av. length 1.5 m can grow up to 2.5 m,
Western Brown Snake 1.5m, Mulga Snake and Collet's Snake the length of a desert,
it's a good way for overseas people to get to know them,
as unmoving shadows behind glass, so they won't get bitten on the tourist coach,
these fangless reptiles, with the potential to make their trip exciting,
it was just the mere thought of them, and then the EEERRR!, star attraction, that is,
Craig The Bearded Dragon, to be laughed and poked at,
what a lark he is!, and so ugly, keep him away from the kids,
now you put him back in the tank, now do it gently he's asleep,
out to it for the rest of his solitary life, amongst strong glue sticking the rocks together,
so snakes can't curl to hide in-between them, when Rex the handler comes,
for the next fantastic exhibit, mindless emus and bored kangaroos kept in a pen out the back,

Rex said, 'they're pretty crude and yay high, they get as dumb as they come out 'ere,
this is Craig The Bearded Dragon, entertaining little fella,
pulled 'im off a post early one morning, if I give 'im a bit of a scratch,
he sits in a shirt pocket on a blokes hat, g'day Craig mate,'

so they can laugh, when they get home to Sydney or to Europe, people took photos,
he changes to brown to blend in with the carpet, whereas if outside he's ochre red,
this Stumpy Tailed Sleepy Lizard, lives until twenty years of age,
but these days his dreaming's for the industry only, then there's
a Red Belly Black Snake, 'best ter worry as soon as the muscles tense up,
of course it's got fangs and venom glands, we don't take 'em out,
we found two males in combat on a ladies lawn in Blackwood in Adelaide,
she called the snake catchers and so now we've got 'em 'ere,'

they were fighting for a reason for territory, now they live together in a tank,
confined for seven hundred and thirty days, most likely doped up, and lastly
Baby Henry the Carpet Python, 4 years old, born in captivity, his favourite thing is being a belt,
he likes it on his hot rock, behind the glass, that's when he's not being a belt

    

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