Poor Richard
dear kanga
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Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros
Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982
Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription
All poems © W. H. Oliver
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she's a good little mother is kanga
scraping along on the d p b
no mr about the place just roo
and him a fine young chap a credit
to her always nicely turned out
boisterous as you might expect
in a boy and likely to break
his mother's heart in the end
he'll spit out the strenthening
medicine and cough his lungs out
most saturday nights she is
off with eeyore anyway
she's pregnant again and all
on a bit of love and a pension