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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always on the go tigger
back from the desert war
on a full disability pension
for years now not exactly
light in the head but the sort
people take time to get used to
give him a quid now and then
it was quickly gone at the pub
for he can't stop himself spending
saturdays up and down
the sideline sundays in bed
with whatever's left of the dozen
other old digs don't have
much time for him means nothing
worried kanga more than
the way he took up with roo
liked him but not too much
for his own or anyone's good
enough for that kind of town