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On Wednesday, 14 September 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> *IN MEMORY OF MERV*
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> Merv’s riding down
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> for his cremation. He wouldn’t
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> miss it for all the sugar cane
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> in Queensland. All the family
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> will be there and people
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> he only half recognises. Will
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> the undertaker ladies have
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> a hitching rail and safe storage
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> for his saddle-bags? They’re new,
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> you know. They were on
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> Merv’s last shopping list: *'I need *
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> *pack saddle with a couple of splitbags – *
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> *also a .22 rifle to shoot whatever...**'*
>
> All the cane fires of Queensland
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> couldn’t burn Merv’s rage out
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> but now all his energy goes
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> up in smoke in one last blaze.
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> Don’t call the wallopers or
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> 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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>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> Books available through Walleah Press
> http://walleahpress.com.au
>
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