• Sorry, no haka • I’m no A

grade ...sucker • And though maybe

quieter• I’ll flag the waiata • Gird yourself for

grammar crime • Stop, it’s poetry

time

• You leave Te Ara team • and this star beam • Star a wonder star a

bright • Beam me up Scotty• She’ll be right• It’s a giant log-o, Jim • Though not as we know

it

• I will miss Your mini disc,

• Mini Disc, tsk tsk, It’s not an attack, but The nineties called.

• They want their Mini disc back.

• Remember Braunias• Who hassled us (mostly

you actually)• I was po-faced and iffy• While you were purse-

lipped, pious and pithy• Well, don’t be naive or

deceived by steve • You’d be peeved and

aggrieved if you looked like he

• Remember we won a trophy for touch

• Didn’t see it much• Because Aaron took it

home• Then we won a trophy

for netball • third or fourth, that’s all• Participation gets

plastic masquerading as chrome

• What a treat,• Your bare feet, • what a habbit,• A habbit, get offit• You’re just another

state funded hobbit

• Peregrin took • You wrote a book• Survive • Who lives, who dies,

and why?• Why?

• Why die?• Why lie.• I’m no liar• I’m Te mihaia • Your’e my Retahu• From the isle of

Ngai tahu

• Who’s• My muse, to abuse,• and amuse• when we choose• to work in twos• it’s just a ruse• To booze • And who coos • Coos?• Cooee cupcake • Too Slow on the uptake• Not meaning to muckrake• But your a crazed nutcake

• Now, with that said• whether nutcake, nutbah, or

nutbread• On Vogel’s you are regularly

fed • From Dr. Alfred Vogel who

was swiss • Though easy to miss• Not Sir Julius• - Vogel that is, • This might be newish• He was jewish,• Not wanting to diminish• but just like you – this is the

Finnish