Met 2 great people from SW Qld

 Met 2 great people from SW Qld

I like strong people 

Strong energy

I like forthright people

I like open people

OPEN!

Not the bullies who are violent but closed

Anyway,

It made me think of my best mates when I was a kid

We probably all had fucked up childhoods

but KINDA GOOD because REAL

& so I loved the rough & tumble

Kids generally sort things out

When the Teachers back off

Not always

But you get the point

Anyway,

we got separated by Demographics

The Middle Class vice

got squeezed into my mind

I hated it

The others

Like Jason, John, David, Brian

went into the Working Class machine

& the shitstem became divisive & divided

Suspicion was introduced

Spiritual differences read into manners

I hate the class system

We met at the caravan parks

on our holidays

& I loved it

But on and on it went

onto University

& my peers

& a lot of the brilliant one's weren't private school kids

But you know

It's a My Fair Lady

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Makeover shite for the body & mind

They call it 'civilising'

seems pretty brutal to me

& people lose touch with their roots

& the Arts Community doesn't represent the working class

They're the great forgotten class

of the Arts

& Letters

& so they've been seduced by the Right

Because they feel ignored by a supercilious Intellectual Class

which thinks being complicated

Is beautiful

Complicated is not equal to Complex

It's inevitably shallow

But the affairs of Man ARE complex

Requiring directness & openness

But the Professional Class complicate

that which boils down to breathing

Anyway,

you get the point

I've spoken enough

But to my Working Class siblings:

we've all been bent out of shape

by Bureaucracy & the State

We need to talk to one another

So we both lose our shoulder chips

& Life and Love will win.

Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.