James Moylan

Zen & Bad Poetry James Moylan

This is simple story about a Federal Senator being kidnapped by a madman & how poetry found discarded in a gutter, a spiritual quest, and a lot of complicated people trying to be good whilst also being happy, accidentally foil his plot. Spend a day in the scrub that fringes the margins of steamy Darwin Harbor, in tropical northern Australia, and glimpse a world which is at once eerily tragic yet also irresistibly comic. In the end the madman fails in his plans: as for the rest? Join Proff, Croc, Senator Ryan, Ernie the Gimp, the Elephant Man, and a whole street-scape of no-hopers, as they become accidentally entangled in a madman's plans. Some learn something, many don't, one human being and a crocodile do come to an unfortunate end, and of course the press have a field day. To be good and happy: all at the same time? Is it possible? Some say yes, some say no; others sit back and watch clouds...