E13: Alphabetically Aussie by Eisha
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A few years ago, Eisha watched a viral video of actor Daniel Radcliffe rapping Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious on The Jimmy Fallon Show. She looked up the lyrics and that inspired her to pen a poem about her second home, Australia, a country very close to her heart. Here's Alphabetically Aussie: Alphabetically Aussie! Australia, Ayers, Assange, asylum; Beaches, blokes, beers and bush; Cricket, coffee and conversation; Diplomacy, dollar, didgeridoos; Entertaining evenings, exploration; Feasting, fans, fast-lanes, flangaroos; Gardens, grills, G'Days and 'greenies'; Highs, health, 'heaps' and handles; Independent, inquisitive, indigenous; Jargon, jumbuck, Japanese, jamboree; Knowledge, koalas, kitties and Kylie; Lust, love, life, less ordinary; Murdoch, Miranda, Matilda, mates; “No worries”, “nice 'n' easy”, NT; Oz, Olympics, Opera House, opal; Pokies' players, precious Pommies; Quiet Queen and quarantine; Rugby, reef, runners 'n' rowers; Sand, sun, shadows and snakes; Tests, tribulations, tribes, trips; Uranium, units, Uggs, utes; Victory, Victoria, Venus and vices; Wine, weather, wellness, worship; X-Men, XXXX, eXtreme; Yarns, 'yakka', yells, 'yewies'; Zoos, Zen, zenith, zest. #eishasarkar #thewritecreed #alphabeticallyaussie #innateexplorer #poem #rap #danielradcliffe #jimmyfallon #thejimmyfallonshow #alphabetaerobics #blackaliciousc#australia #straya #aussie #oz #downunder #poetry 
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