Australia

After Allen Ginsberg

 

Australia I've given you some and now I'm something

In the Southern land

the southerly part of the southern land

north of Launceston

It's cold.

Australia negative three-thousand-six-hundred-and-sixty-three dollars, twenty-seven cents February 7, 2018

I'm one week out from Ash Wednesday

I'm giving up tranquility for Lent

If you're the lucky country I can't see how

Australia, go fuck yourself with your concentration camps

With your right wing Labor Party and your right wing Liberals

And your Sophie's choice

And your Presbyterian Anglicans

Australia, I wished for a war with North Korea that would end Canberra

I'm not sorry

We could move the capital to Melbourne where it belongs

Australia, I'm sentimental about the Labor Party,

Their nominal pain for working class folks

And Pa, a loyal public servant voted Labor all his life

Australia why are things so twisted?

The knots are too tight -- the way to untie them long gone

Australia why are we not strong enough to cut the strings at strategic points to maintain the integrity of the whole as much as possible while separating the irreparable and slicing it and throwing it away like testicles from neutered family pets?

Australia what's wrong with me that I hate you

Your flag in deference to the Crown

The Queen may be a reptilian

But maybe when she's gone we're gone too

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