Very much enjoyed how this, while addressing the particular, reached out to the universal... all the Merv's I have known, Thank you for this! Cheers, G. E. Schwartz
---- Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> good old Merv !
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> On 14/09/2016 01:03, Andrew Burke wrote:
> > *IN MEMORY OF MERV*
> >
> >
> >
> > Merv’s riding down
> >
> > for his cremation. He wouldn’t
> >
> > miss it for all the sugar cane
> >
> > in Queensland. All the family
> >
> > will be there and people
> >
> > he only half recognises. Will
> >
> > the undertaker ladies have
> >
> > a hitching rail and safe storage
> >
> > for his saddle-bags? They’re new,
> >
> > you know. They were on
> >
> > Merv’s last shopping list: *'I need *
> >
> > *pack saddle with a couple of splitbags – *
> >
> > *also a .22 rifle to shoot whatever...**'*
> >
> > All the cane fires of Queensland
> >
> > couldn’t burn Merv’s rage out
> >
> > but now all his energy goes
> >
> > up in smoke in one last blaze.
> >
> > Don’t call the wallopers or
> >
> > the fireys. Merv’s just going out
> > in one last blaze of glory.
> >
> > * Merv Lilley was a cane-cutting big man and a well-known poet and writer.
> > He died just days ago at the age of 96. He suffered from dementia in his
> > final years, and left a long list of poems and folk ballads. His two
> > daughters are both poets and very clever ladies.
> >
> >
> >
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