Sunrise clouds in charcoal like
a flock of geese
Sunrise clouds in charcoal like
a flock of geese against the blue collared with white tucking into a black brown
stout I’ve been up a few hours my period on heat has passed & I’m avuncular
again
frankly looks a little like too
much work passing with the lunatic’s full moon now waning on me for 17 years
since psychosis & ever increasing amounts of tranquilizers
the light shines through only occasionally
the medication & the booze see to it though dreams sometimes I’ve had
visions now all is broken as Zim says
my mind is busted my soul is
done so why guard against certain thoughts from whence do thoughts arise anyway
so surrealism & absurdism
have built up artillery & apocalyptics are in power the order is dangerous &
art is safe not since gangsta rap has art shaken the moral order now the leader
of the free world gags about grabbing women by the pussy so I don’t know what
I’m gonna do while the missiles fall the world going to hell just bear witness
that’s all we can do
commercial news pumps out divisive
poisons each night & coz they’ve got the footy it’s what people watch this
morning I woke in the dark sip of tea plenty of water silence as I redrafted
yesterday’s poem & said you know it’s pretty good here comparatively
then breakfast Bootleg 8 a glass
of stout & writing this mess I’m trying to find something useful in Israel
started bombing Iran & Iran retaliated but of course it’s not that simple
anyway I’m not talking about the middle east too many voices all at once none
of them experts playing a cacophony of
someone’s having a fight next
door little hotboxes what should an Australian make art about what’s an
Australian?
career artists thinking about
commercial viability or many of them in the universities cowing to vice
chancellors so I’m just lickin the road I spoke to the barman but he’s not
gonna tell you how he’s goin he’s got his job to think about so few tell ya
honestly only the crazy you can trust to level with ya
God protect me from the sane
lock up their feelings & dreams at home when they attack their families with
them but yeah the poet writes & there’s no one who reads ’less their careers
in it
I got really horny after meeting
an exceptionally beautiful woman but that was all to no end some people say
just use a sex worker but I have a block on that anyway this says nothing about
our time except that most things are happening online & it’s dominated by
malignant forces & the young think it’s real coz they’ve never known life
without it & their algorithms are long set profiled meanwhile the streets
are dead & the people that brave going out are usually cool though you
wouldn’t know that coz you’re always on your headphones & phones I know
this because I walk the streets everyday & I’m living in a university area you
struggle to speak coz you’re not used to talking lack of practice coz I’ve met
uneducated people who converse a hellavu lot better so what does a poet do when
people don’t read they have to do audio tracks man I’ve done thousands of them
but they invariably they sound educational in other words lame
so I’ll continue with my blog
& attend the occasionally poetry night even if my stuff will go over
people’s heads because people don’t know poetry they know speechifying in other
words propaganda propaganda like we have in this country for social engineering
purposes which is what most art is modelled on coz people’s connection to art
is mainly via advertising
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.
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