discovering who’s live-broadcasting
a rugby test between England & NZ
wasn't intrigue-easy, it was wrapped
in innuendo, fraught, conspiracy-like,
by mired deviousness; only ‘deviant’
cognoscenti thought through a lame
mask of Setanta’s claimed exclusivity
but watch we did, amazed by its braw
analogy differentiating what we view in
a southern hemisphere by that English
afternoon tea choral of swinging low in
sweet chariots as the Haka ensues;
not that it mattered too much anyway
the Welsh referee confused everyone
with interim rulings he made up on the
spot or vacillated technically and got a
TMO’s arbitration, no-one quite sure if
it was just him being himself - affected
by his weird sense of self importance
but this game was non-stop both on &
off the pitch which made seeing it live
the right thing to do - even if Sundays
are a day of rest it was a sterling test
of play viewing stamina in the Spring
Tour extravaganza’s rugby buffet
© 11 November 2014, I. D. Carswell
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