The Friday Poem: ‘Constructive Criticism’ by Michael Hall
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It’s Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day! All week this week we’ve presented new verse on the delicate subject of fucking; today, we present a poem of much greater significance and importance, by Michael Hall of Dunedin.
Constructive Criticism
Awww come on ref
The guy’s clearly offside
Aww come on ref
That’s not a penalty
Aww come on,
For fuck’s sake, ref
That was forward
It was right in front of you
Ref, you couldn’t even officate
A blade of grass
Ref, my 6 year old can ref
Better than you
Why don’t you run off
And marry your whistle, ref
You’re a joke, ref
You’re embarrassing yourself
Ref, you can stick that whistle
Up your big fat hairy arse
Michael Hall, 2018
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Michael Hall
Michael Hall lives in Dunedin. Recent poems of his have been published in NZ Listener, Poetry NZ Yearbook 2022, and 1964: mountain culture/aotearoa.
