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Sokoblast
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I am a Social Justice artist Painter, Songwriter, Country & Western Singer Sydney Busker found in China town Central Sydney. I’ve been a Perth busker1982-1988 Sydney 1998 -2021 still busk Karaoke in the street, good with the hands a restorator of salvage goods, a sound specialist, I began writing poetry in 1966 I was real good in composition & wrote many fine poems that were recited every Education week, I recited at school fete & speech nights. I lived a harsh life bullied by the system & failed by the education dep. In Sydney art classes were for the rich only so I illustrated my geography book extreme & project books galore. Mother was always late with the school fees as there was four of us so the school punished me by coming in early & staying behind on detention that made cruel students spit at me & justify cruel bullying I received at Sir Joseph Banks High School; in Revesby. Not allowing me to fit in properly so I did extra work not to be bored. I wagged lots of school & left at fifteen. I had a harsh teen life couldn’t do art in NSW as a poor man couldn’t afford to pay the Tafe Schools bribe fees of $5.000. I managed to go to creative writing at Bankstown Tech & public speaking course. I began busking also took guitar lessons at Palings for a year then Three years classic finger picking at Peter Collins Music Academy Chapel Rd Bankstown.I married at 21 moved about Padstow, Liverpool, Moorebank then Airds Campbellown into the worst housing commission place Sydney had to offer. I got divorced when the Mrs. was caught in bed with another while babysitting. I met her in a newspaper adds read doormat for the girls by the daily mirror. Wife was pregnant to another, I was set up & had to marry it! We had three but only one was mine so I crashed & burnt then escaped from Aids to Wollongong till my divorce. I ran a second hand shop after being retrenched from BHP Steel Port Kembla as a maintenance Welder Boilermaker. My