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
8
there's no accounting for
the things some people say
he's turning out a tough
young bastard with a heart
of butter would not melt
in kanga's mouth when he
got sent to borstal won't
be the end of it either
that or they say he isn't
quite the full pound though
useful enough in the front
row of the scrum tigger
could easily have been
crippled for life but roo
was loved the better for it
is mostly lies and envy