Poem: Above All To Thy Own Self Be True

There was this busker in Wellington in the 1990s they called ‘Kenny’ on account of the fact that he always played The Gambler and had a cowboy hat and a frosted grin – he was like a wax figure from the flea-motel version of a celebrity-lookalike museum and his leather jacket stank of bourbon.

He stood out on Courtney Place and would field requests for Th…