24 January 2012

Aliens



They laugh at us
the dark ones,
our heavy dance and wobbly gait
treading on stones with tender feet
feeding kangaroos by hand
eating fish from cans

but we know poison
and real estate
the force of guns and laws.

Listen to their keening,
faint now,
for all the generations lost,
a pissed corroboree
outside an empty parliament.

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