Poem: The Bruce Springsteen Grinning-Statue Show

Bruce Springsteen is a craftsman, hell of a writer

but fuck all that chest-puffing and that stupid-ass grin.

Gimme Paul Kelly with his mortician’s grimace, his songs for the ages and the usual Australian lack of self-doubt.

It’s not a competition

but Bruce Springsteen is auditioning for his own statue,

and Paul Kelly is doing the work just to keep his own jo…