Never-ending Story : 8 stanzas each of 6 lines and 4 stanzas each of 4 lines about a bloke who could never get to the end of a story.
“He’d never been Outback before,
You’ve got to grant him that.
And that’s what saved him being smashed
As flat as this old hat.
But there’s one thing he knew,
He’d made a bad blue.
Us Aussies, as you’re well aware
Can weather any storm;
But this bloke’s rare disaster
Just went beyond the norm.
Though we stopped short of death
It was just by a breath.”
“Ar, come on, mate!” the drinkers cried,
“Get to the bloody point!
And tell us what you’re on about;
Before they close this joint!”