What If -Sir John Wayne

My poem set in a alternative history where John Wayne was born British  and the  now unfashionable star of  Raj  and Zulu set  colonial pictures

John Wayne  as  film buffs will know did make a Movie  with Oliver Hardy as his  co star

What If -Sir John Wayne

 

 

 

Sir John Wayne  star of many a colonial boy movie

stands with awe and more awe the words of  sir Henry Newbolt  to a close hall of Eton harrowed primes

not just pride in your country

it's Montagu Love

 

red shipped square  to gatling

  square bullets  for infidels

 

big john sir john bible john 

the iconic Wayne

topee

trusting in western lee-enfield

bearers behind

Greek dancing tents

camp coffee label

 

big john short fare to America

rendering America

 one half of the comedy duo Hardy and Wayne

 

associated British Gainsborough pictures

flew wooden hurricanes and never spats

white hunter

auk hunter

biopics of the man who founded imperial tobacco and  the man who created Empire Day

 

played every hero of federated Nyasaland

and in 1960  wi/th money from his shorts paid for produced  starred in and directed  the epic  "Relief of  Lucknow"

remember Lucknow?

 

iconic Wayne

pleased to be mistaken for a retired Simla civil servant

and advertises  brown sauce