Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  take up smoking quit ur phone! Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  about Queers But this really hot guy gave me 2 cigarettes Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  Someone A woman Died Wha? How goes it Ngar-go?! Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  “the only way we’ve made it this far”

  The We 3 band*   I have a mate Who reckons that all art/poems are mirrors   So the I is not me but as much you & what you recognise in it   & I’ve reflected about/on my more fractious poems/songs receiving my attention than my more peaceful – sweeter tones –   & quite plausible (though of course moot) that all the world & life/the experience of more subjective/communion/separation is one’s mirror image/s & what one has a Blind spot on is “my echo, my shadow & me.”*     *The vocal band The Ink Spots Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  The Crisis of Two   by Malachi Doyle   “I swore I’d make her happy every day… but now I make her cry… Two faces have I” – (Bruce Springsteen)   I try so hard to be a good & righteous man but I have a Shadow which fractures the peace   I get impatient when people half listen or interrupt So I never get through the story   & so they: “quickly” & so I blurt it out without its many colours & shades & BANG I made a blind man cry.   I did follow up after him & asked him if he wanted a hug   So we hugged But the damage was done   It’s meant to be Christmas for god’s sake! mine/our orphans’ Christmas   They don’t know each day I cry in grief & trauma – I’m a bull in a china shop   So I will no longer tell you the story of the Gordian Knot…   There is no shorthand   That is the point!   Because that’s the curse on mankind: ...