Poems by the New McGonagall

By Tomas Mc Rae, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, ©1988

hen I acted out the role of the World’s Best Bad Poet on the Walkways at Brisbane’s WORLD EXPO 88 I added a few poems of my own in similar genre.

Here are a few I still remember.

1. Funnelweb Spiders

2. Shark Attack

3. An Epic Tale of Scots Fortitude

4. Faithful Fido

5. On Australian Serpents

5. On the Cane Toad Menace

6. On the Terrible Slaughter at the Little Bighorn

7. On the Amazing Escape of a Cambridge Scholar from a Wild Boar

8. On the Nefarious Activities in Edinburgh of Burke and Hare

8. On the Recent Ghastly Murders in Whitechapel

9. The Squidledeydoo

10. Dundee chipper