I
This gaudy tourist beach
retired scum of
exploit the poor
Australia. Playing
golf, faking orgasm, moved
to pornographic
cunt/cock fix.
Sea change?
Take me
back to the ghetto! Alive
and troubled.
II
If you work hard to
privatise your
testicles, lick
the cum of
‘benchmark’ and
‘quota’; you’ll
accumulate enough super to
retire here,
among the buggies
and boredom.
III
All those four wheel drive
pseudo - jeeps, with
with bobbed blonde narcissists
and three kids to
piano this, and soccer that
dancing this and tutoring
that —
such clumsy tanks on the roads
at twilight
crawling home to their
McMansion garages. She
eyes me like a
night in the swamp.
IV
A morning where I want to
XXXX the world, want
to belch and fart
fumes of bodily liberation
and laugh at the monkeys
red - assed with scrofula. The
monkeys off to their paper mausoleums
seeking adrenaline-junky highs
from contact sport, all
those sado - masochistic males
banging into each other
like painted fridges —
millions of them, aiming between
human goalposts. I
laugh at the monkeys, red - assed
with scrofula.
Ian Irvine is an Australian-based poet/lyricist, fiction writer and non-fiction writer:
His work has featured in many Australian and international publications, including Fire (UK) ‘Anthology of 20th Century and Contemporary Poets,’ (2008) which contained the work of poets from over 60 nations. His work has also appeared in a number of Australian national poetry anthologies, and he is the author of three books and co-editor of many more (including Scintillae 2012, an anthology of work by over 50 Victorian and international writers and poets). He currently teaches writing and literature at Bendigo TAFE and Victoria University (Melbourne) and lives with fellow writer Sue King-Smith and their children on a 5 acre block near Bendigo, Australia.
Links related to his work are as follows:
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http://www.scribd.com/IanHobson
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