The Spill Surprise
Julia sharpened knitting needles prepared for spill of blood, around Australia we all waited would there be another PM Rudd? At last Bill Shorten swings manouevring for another day he’s waiting quietly...
View ArticlePoems of Discontent
Under Capitalism I would be more worthy if I am a wage earner if I am male if I am white if I am not dis-abled if I am least colonised if I am from the mother country if I am young and not too young if...
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Australia’s Shameful Racism Against Refugees
Why do most Australians only stir in masses about endemic racism in Australian government policy when it comes to a head, as if victimisation of refugees arriving in boats is an anomaly instead of an...
View ArticlePoems Of Domestic Revolution
Tenant from Hell (from Other People’s Lives) He cares not for mundane semiotics - weeks of encrusted dishes mount, all year I’ve begged the bludger to wash the house, sombre as my roiling mood, disdain...
View ArticleLe Trio Joubran and Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) ‘This siege will persist until we teach our enemies models of our finest poetry the sky is leaden during the day and a fiery orange at night… but our...
View ArticlePoems of the Pre-Election Second Honeymoon
Progressive Except for Palestine The almightiness of whiteyness decrees rightness, with blessings for oppressed voters are impressed, he’s green, hip and progressed but won’t boycott and divest for...
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Election Day 2013 – Of Privilege, Boats and Dinosaurs
Of Stoats and Boats So here’s the day of voting depression where Murdoch bigans pervert the election, democratic choice stolen by stoats Minime Canutes can’t stop the boats but piss on the people to...
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On Empire, Settler Colonialism and the Environment
The Fall Don’t expect me to care about your empire its sacrifices, its bloody flag that hides money men from scrutiny your capitalism, your patriarchy your imbalances, your hatred for trees, your...
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Victim Diva
tabloid burnt offerings grovel to my dictates shock horror twerking scandal! if you could ask Elvis, would he not say my heaving gyrations transcend colour, sex, class and race? your acquiescence in...
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Poem – Multiplication
Multiplication my liberation is a prime number indivisible by misogyny the boot on my neck also crushes the workers chose me first so long ago that which frightens must be controlled in the child’s...
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Settler Colonialism is Nothing to Celebrate
Invasion Day 2014 i distrust whitey for bloody good reasons distrust my white privilege may i be invaded dispossessed of entitlement sail ships around ignorance predations on environment give back...
View ArticleAustralian Settler Grabbit Haiku
it’s not about me but trusting new government the buck stops with me bouffant bronwyn gaffes in discontented winter bishop serves abbott march, australians to dog whistles and old dirges rule brittania...
View Article#Grangegate: O’Farrell Falls on His Corkscrew
In Vino Veritas Haiku Barry can’t explain how water can turn to wine too much Grange last night? A premier year Was Grange 1959 ahhh, lost memories “A bottle of Grange is pretty special”, bleats Tones,...
View ArticleDiva Parachuting
parasites feast on underbelly of fevered daily news cycle self-dissections in smelly articles whiny and spiteful try hard toffs from dullard spires slink to fourth and fifth estates scribbling vanity...
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Fado of the Gazan Fishermen
For Mariza From Almina Port, Gazan fishermen sail captive over turbulent ocean of loss harvest shrinking shoals in three mile noose run gauntlet of Israeli gunboats For you I sing of exiled torment...
View ArticleVisible in Gaza
They shot the child in her innocent beauty said she was a human shield she made them do it they said yet she was just a child. They shot the mother who held the child her womb a demographic threat she...
View ArticleChildren As Grass
golden sheaves spread in school yard salt coast grown, resistant stems of native centuries warned from homes to wretched refuge without respite no shafts to freedom where none are safe threat of grass...
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A Ballad for the Grabbit – Tony Silvertongue
TONY SILVERTONGUE Do not denigrate our P M He leads this fair and precious land And speaks his mind into the ether Maybe sometimes he leaves his teeth there! Do not denigrate or call him names Like...
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Cane Toad Time
You know it’s summer in the Sunshine State when from beneath your desk there’s a shuffling sound a gruffly plop and scrape then you look down straight into the gloating gob of the most gruesome pest...
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