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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piglet you'd never notice
carrying his caseload
to and fro on the unit
takes owl to a house with a view
and kanga on another
stop to a decent suburb
and piglet home to the prefab
not too far from the sandhills
where rabbit lives with his ever
increasing family benefit
brings him in more than kanga
invited piglet home
one night was more than enough
to give him the fright of his life
was all the better for it