Changing Allegiance

 

On Sat, 30 Sept 2023, 9:29 pm Don McDonald, <swaggie2@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All,

I have just done an online application to take up New Zealand citizenship - Yaay

So to make this email more worth reading, I've put the keyboard to task (Not ChatGPT) telling the story in rather wobbly verse.

I am writing to let you know today

That my Aussieness is drifting away

For an hour or two I tapped and swore

At an Online Application that kept asking for more

What was my Mother's maiden Name?

Who was my Dad? I entered twice,

And where was I married ( a place so nice)

Then while I was phoning a referee

The program timed out, making it three.

I had to ring back for the passport number

Email, phone and street address I knew

Knowing other's passport details very few

Could claim to have that down pat.

What got me doing this I hear you ask

And hand on heart I can say quite true

With the woeful Wallabies, it had nothing to do

But after forty-five years I've been here longer

Than I ever spent in the Island yonder

What is it you've done you ask again

May even think it has caused much pain

But Hansen, Dutton and the likes of Joyce

Have left me with not a serious choice

If I pass the test, though I have no Iwi

Could be; in nineteen months I'll be a Kiwi.

Y'All keep safe,