E.A. Markham
Expat. 3rd Class
Painted face and a limp?
Don’t over-do it:
one or other will suffice
for a VSO teacher
in Laiagam or Kandep
who can’t cope with this
bit of England.
You should have made it
in your father’s time:
government pathologist
studying the natives
for hookworm and malaria;
or joined the elite Club
of Anthropologists from Columbia
at home in kunai
in love with ass-grass.
Even World Bank stars shooting
in to evaluate Projects
they haven’t time to see
will get it right in the MEMO
and outshine you.
The painted face
is common in these parts.
The limp - seen it seen it
is anybody’s, everybody’s.
So tell them jokes,
my late explorer, tell them
we’re here to help them develop.
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