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We’ve watched too much TV

  We’ve watched too much TV   There are things I ought to write about Like environmental catastrophe & yet I don’t, though I feel it deeply I so I write about my brother’s gumboot Lost in the snow & him crying & my parents laughing Sympathetic of course But humour at the absurdity We’re a funny lot, us folk We cry in anime yet laugh at the deaths of dear ones & so we’re presented with endless reels Of extinguished species But it somehow feels unreal We prefer to talk about celebrities Because it don’t upset the meal Emotional pleas for justice Do not touch our hearts We mistake real life for fiction We’ve heard too many lies Our minds contaminated & so the Devil’s techniques Amuse us until apocalypse     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.    

I miss my country friends

  I miss my country friends (For Fernando Palma Rodriguez)   I miss my country friends Like I miss fresh air   There’s lots of pretty faces in the city But the conversations are dull Always rushing to the endpoint The music always too loud & you yourself have no faith That any new territory will be reached   Conversations are afterall relational In the city the conversations chop & change constantly Everyone for some reason in a hurry Little resonates & I’m as dulled as they are   I’m lonely here My nights are taken up with small talk Everyone selling a message of hope When there’s a ghost inside their breast   We talk without any appetite No candour, consideration, nor grit We do not listen well here in the city Our ears ringing from the traffic & the muzak We cannot see the horizon We have lost our sense of direction     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025. ...

Andrew Bolt, the IPA & Gina Rinehardt

  Andrew Bolt, the IPA & Gina Rinehardt   by Malachi Doyle   The Media Commentator Andrew Bolt is employed by the Institute of Public Affairs (the IPA), a Right Wing think Tank, which is funded heavily by Gina Rinehardt & the Mining Industry. One of their goals is to overturn the Racial Discrimination Act & thus to attempt to invalidate First Nations People’s claims to land, to better enable further mining & prospecting, including fracking. Why does the media never talk about organisations like the IPA?, pretending that the view expressed by people such as Bolt is his own, & felt sincerely. This is payola. Rupert Murdoch is also closely affiliated with the IPA, & has been guest speaker at their events. We live in dark times, where journalistic integrity has been supplanted by commentators representing organisations which pay them to communicate the interests of non-disclosed sponsors. & the people are ignorant of this. The average A...

“So busy!, so busy!”

  “So busy!, so busy!”   It looked like progress was being made But that turned out to be a mirage & those 2 steps forwards Went 2 steps backwards No, the nation was not ready to look at itself Would it ever be? asked a child "Behave yourself," he was told No, it preferred to look at celebrities & try & research their wardrobes “So busy!, so busy!” Was the answer to every question But as for researching one’s homeland It could not find the time What was the cause of this lack of will? It was easier to listen to bedtime stories Of once upon a time & happily ever after The nation could not bear To look beyond Hollywood “So busy!, so busy!” The nation could not bear To find its ancestors & itself culpable Of an ongoing genocide of its Indigenous people So it vilified the victims & cast doubt on their characters Anything but face the Truth It was easier to remain blind & wear virtual reality glasses...

& love was hard to find

  & love was hard to find   “Anything could be going on” Said Waa the crow to Booran the ant It was the first Australian Grand Prix The animals were in shock at the noise Thinking it could be Armageddon It went on for days & the spirit was hurt & bitumen & concrete covered the earth In the Fish houses Bluebeard was dreamt up By a future gunrunner Someone always looking for a reaction As children were As people were in this crazy world Immaturity was de rigour & love was hard to find & love was hard to find Everything was commercial Even the language of lovers & love was hard to find & love was hard to find     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

Masks 2

  Masks 2   When you’re lonely & people only know competition It redoubles the blues Then the hangover & the recognition that Despite all the money spent At the bar No intimacy was won “What’s my scene?” Sang the Hoodoo Gurus I’ve been with the Africans I’ve been with the poets I’ve been with the Irish I’ve been with the Australians & I keep getting stared down By masks Masks affixed tightly Man they sleep with them on! So terrified of losing face I feel like the only one here naked Why should I walk in shame? & so I’m forced to stand alone The only one looking to collaborate In this world  In this y’ a world Of Competition     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.    

Doubt

  Doubt   & so I’m talking to a lovely couple & I’m telling them How having had a psychosis in the past I’m never 100% sure anymore That I’m not imagining the surroundings & the people & that really I’m in a psychiatric hospital Talking to nurses or doctors Not people in a pub Or even talking to myself In my cell That I’m still psychotic & far from reality   It’s a humbling experience To acknowledge that what you thought was real Was actually a delusion That you never anymore proceed with 100% surety & yet as Immanuel Kant pointed out One is always taking a leap of faith in the act of reasoning about life Even if the reasoning is doubt     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

High Poem

  High Poem   7 equals 1 My friend eats a bun Yes you’ve gotta Mentally work it out Yunno not ‘literally’ We’re oppressed We’ve been colonised Time to grow up Australia I’m curious & have curiosity To observe oneself As displaying Predominant analysis The thinking person Homo sapien Herb is wonderful Fuck yeah I FEEL too I feel fucking great De-flating Lightening the load As Carmody says I was naked Like me parents Fuckin trapsing around! Ha! I ain’t mad I’m trippin! According to a seriously Smart guy He’s translated the Bible into Fijian For the first time in over 100 years Indigenous Fijian & Tongan Dr Robert Wolfgramm & my first mentor Said in passing once “Mal you’re confusing Religion & theology” I think what he was saying was That Ritual & the Social Are as at least as important Of course he’s a Sociologist As well as a practiser of his faith He’s done a lot for ...

In hope of a nice trip

  In hope of a nice trip (Tripping) Do your job & don’t demand I follow your ideas Economics & Politics are different Beasts As bad as one another  But your job is to house first of all Not via mortgage or rent A human fuckin right We’re not objects You cannot know my mind All you can is deduce from affects With conjecture about affects Which are in fact not affects But in fact expressions Of living culture  Which you are to respect  While we respect others Including awkward behaviour  & seek understanding Take your time Oh yeah Dutton You’re a public servant  Serve the people  For example  Taking care as you do so As we are required  By law TO help the homeless  Fuckin hell Albo Talking about talking Isn’t respectfully  Helping the homeless  It’s watching & chatting shit Doesn’t mean you’re the worst No Dutton takes the cuffs for that We sit down enough  Coz we’re beaten down I like the way Tamils fry fish...

“I didn’t know!”

  “I didn’t know!”   Don’t get me wrong In a Two Party preferred system  I have no choice but to give preferences to Labor The Coalition are scum But Jacinta Allen, Victorian Premier Claimed in a Truth Telling Commission that she never knew about massacres Of Indigenous people in the state She’d never looked up The history of her country The history of the state she leads She’s Premier! She leads a department that ‘manages Indigenous affairs’ We are currently in the process of negotiating a Treaty What did she think happened to all the Aboriginal people?! They went up to live up the Magic Faraway Tree? “No one told me!” No one ever told me either I fuckin researched It was really easy Took 10 minutes There’s this new thing called the Internet & you search stuff up Like History A subject no longer taught in many schools past year 7 I deduced a lot from observing the place & how allergic we are of looking at ourselves ...