21.07.2009 A Hat With Cupboards Poem by Margaret Alice

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor, wore a
special wizard hat with small cupboards,
telescopic legs and oiled silk in the brim

Becoming a small tent, a spirit stove, inner
pockets containing rations, liquor in the
unscrewed tip for emergencies

With this James Bond from Unseen
University I would love to see the world
nothing would ever find him unprepared

The only gadget I rebel against is the
mouse in the treadmill on his head, the
mixture of honey and manure he rubs

On his bald spots – on second thought,
this is one James Bond that had better
stay within the pages of a book…

Terry Pratchett “Lords and Ladies”
Victor Gollancz,1992 p.178

14 July 2009