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Dear Sam, hello it’s me, don’t fret old friend whom I have never met. I wrote a letter time forgot, you may ask why, I ask why not? A sad meditation of late on our nation’s new police state - its central thesis at its core is blame the pimp and shame the whore! It lay unopen and unread cos my carrier pigeon fled. A kiwi odyssey I seek to find the man from Bottle Creek on the Kaipara water’s edge by windin’ estuaries and the sedge. I’m just a pilgrim like you, Sam, a vagabond - that’s all I am. No signposts, GPS or apps - just the moon and stars as my maps. I’m a poet without a stage, a biographer of my age but we’re as far as I can see surrounded by dumbfu-ckery! All was well with the world until the old and comorbid got ill - Gain of Dysfunction WuFlu hit and everyone lost their sh-it over a coronavirus - a hoax existential crisis. And in this pandemic caper a mad grab for toilet paper, madder still, I was told don’t ask and wear a useless an-al mask. The rulin’ class in Wellington lock down and answer to no one - a canker on the bloom of youth so fu-ck their Ministry of Truth! Those intelligentsia pricks, faceless functionary buttlicks who con us all surprise, surprise spewin’ their propaganda lies. And on people none the wiser prey the narco men from Pfizer pushin’ their untested vaccine while I get pissed in quarantine. I wonder if James K Baxter would have been an anti-vaxxer? The gutless leaders who spread fear threaten me but I don’t care. I don’t need a jab to survive from the queen bee in her Beehive - Ardern can jab it up her ar-se for this yellow plague too will pass. In the Land of the Long Dark Cloud where our spirit was once unbowed we were a pioneer people but “baa baa” I fear we’re sheeple. Sam, yours is a quicksilver tongue, a voice in higher realms among, somewhere between and born to be the man and the mythology. But me, I’m just a misanthrope doin’ my best to live and cope - I drink to outlaws and misfits who live and die by their wits, to poets and minstrels who scorn at all the crazy panic por-n! Nothin’ anymore makes any sense and no justice or consequence - not for commie cun-ts in Beijing or fu-cktards who kiss Fauci’s ring, not those sinophile U.N. flogs or the rabid Big Pharma dogs. It all seems to me way too sus, a bad joke and the joke’s on us - I’m tired of the insanity and rage against its vanity, but I’ll have a tonic and gin till the cold fog of death rolls in. I’m no seer or philosopher, just a man who’s been right so far - a soldier in the culture war up for a sh-itfight that’s for sure. Let ‘em come for me if they will… I’m ready to die on this hill. Written: March 2021 Pictured above is Sam Hunt. Note: You may be wondering why dashes have been inserted in some words. They are used to circumvent the software on this site that expunge words deemed to be offensive. I know, right! Wrote this during the Covid pandemic as a laugh to kill some time never intending to post it, but now I think why not post it? Sam Hunt is a famous New Zealand poet. James K Baxter is another NZ poet who wrote a reply letter to Sam back in the late 1960s which inspired my own. Ardern was NZ's socialist Prime Minister during Covid. The NZ parliament is colloquially known as The Beehive

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Date: 2/16/2025 6:53:00 AM
Sam, I mean Keith, this poem is so funny in that it crosses the line in broad daylight. And to see the poem in the top 100 with dashes here and there is even funnier. Good job.
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