Old Pop & Other Verses by Tim Borthwick
"Old Pop" was inspired by the sale of Pop, the last of three bulls purchased about ten years ago, and who were named Snap, Crackle and Pop after the rice bubbles. Other poems include The Plane, Forty Years, Fred's Camp, The Flamin' Go Bird, The Nightmare, The Twister, Battle of the Goats, The Train, Farmer Joe, The Bull, The Red Terror, Old Giddy, Goat Fever, The White Stetson, Friends, Winter Mornings, Big Cats, Old Solly, The Steeplechaser, Bringing Home The Bacon, Flying Pigs, The Crone, The Blokes from NSW, The Storm, Pudding and Poetry, Many a Time and The Poet.

"Old Pop was a bull, a bit long in the tooth
Who had come to the end of the line
Of all the good bulls I had known in my youth
Old Pop was a favourite of mine.
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