The Friday Poem: ‘A new song of allegiance’ by Murray Edmond
John Keats, now dead
New verse by Auckland writer Murray Edmond.
A new song of allegiance
(apologies to R.A.K. Mason)
Curnow Glover Brasch have fled
(Stead’s still trying to get in bed)
Manhire is my kind of guy
It’s hard to say exactly why
I bunked with Hunt now he’s drunk
Come on mate don’t pull that stunt
Baxter does not seem to care
If my plait’s behind my ear
None are left can raise a woody
Just two shoes and both are goody
Come on scribblers see me here
I offer up my lovely rear
You’ll find I’m not too hard to please
Waiting here upon my knees
Look my arse is smooth and warm
Perfect content in a form
My song is viral everywhere
Fuck me boldly in the rear
Murray Edmond, 2018
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Murray Edmond
Murray Edmond is the author of 20 books of poetry and fiction, and serves as editor of on-line journal, Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics and dramaturge for Indian Ink Theatre Company. For reasons “unknown or unknowable” he still continues to write, with distant and bracing prospect of Waikumete Cemetery in view. Murray was born in Hamilton in 1949.
