Sport 26: Autumn 2001
XX Masai Ariana
XX Masai Ariana
1
Murray, 1861-1940
However, I do not suppose
it matters much—
the Japanese will have not only Papua
and New Guinea, but
Australia and New Zealand
in another fifty
years.
Thank God, I
shall be dead.
2
Aristocratic, autocratic, Labor-
inclined, witty,
intellectual & athletic,
Catholic,
married &
alone, kind
& responsive
to the Papuan people,
elderly &
attractive to women. A
misfit
in his own society, he
found his kingdom
in someone
else's.
3
For forty days and nights
watch fires burnt
on the hills around the town.
On the forty-first day
thousands of Papuans arrived in Hanuabada
for the death feast.
They lined the hills.
They sat in silence;
the only sound the tapping
of a thousand native drums.
4
3 February 1942
The first bombs fell
on Moresby.
Fires, fires
and fires on the hills.
Look Murray,
the Japanese.