Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  A bitter people (VB)   So I have a serene Breakfast with the Turks   1 baklava 1 double espresso 1 glass of water   & after thinking about It I buy a carton of Sour cherry juice for home Delicious   I should’ve just Gone home But I wanted to say “I love you” To the Indians Before the ‘sorry business’ Regarding the death Of my big brother Tim I head to Radelaide/Tarndarnya Which brings the Loop back to Watendlath Tarn, Cumbria I previously met Anyway, I bought an obscenely long Bent banana with A gammy bit At its end, Me & the guy behind the Counter Joked about its size & girth “by sea” A joke echoing Me & an ex lover     Anyway with a Chortle in my Soul I made my way To see a protest March heading ‘away’ From Parliament House I thought ‘it’s Always ‘on’!’ In Carlton. Melbourne is Trippin While the world Burns Incidenta...

  Long night & next morning   ‘Individualism’   Atomisation Is killing us –   Essentialism     --   Flower child, Speak through My heart     --   Quote from Chuang Tzu:   “He stands upon What is fathomless & walks where no Path exists”   (trans. Stephen Mitchell)     --   O snail So compact So stand alone But when you Dance with another You 2 metamorphose     --   Double booking two Vulnerable people You love very much     --   ‘After Rikyu’   Dad liked Dilmah tea My mate Len likes Dilmah tea I normally get Twinings Irish breakfast (my paternal grandfather trained there) But the Dilmahs were On the bargain table So this will be interesting I do take tea seriously As one should. It’s tea!     --   ‘Radio to the stars’   ...

  Buying takeaway’s hopeless! a) plastic/non renewables b) anti social Isolationism Like Drumpf Fuckin Hopeless! Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Subdivision  Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Women of the night a I’m in little lon  Where when my mother was young It belonged to Women of the night a Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  1788   “The first ‘gift’ of the British Colonists To the Aboriginals Was Rum”   To people who’d never known sugar or alcohol     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  (for Rhath) Reawoken Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  “It’s crazy out there!”   (after Paul Donnelly) I’m tired of & from performativeness – The sound of a car starting   --   City livin   I’m sick of the way I speak I’m sick of my words Conversation is impossible at the moment It all sounds tinny I’m sick of topics I’m sick of ‘being clever’ I feel counterfeit But silence eludes me The pull of the people I feel I should be quiet It would be good for me But I’m unable to The Celtic knot goes on & on & on In the Angle As Roy Harper sang I’m “flat broke & beserk” Mental illness & money mate! Even in my poems I’m always talking TO someone I’m always talking to myself My Sabbath overwhelms me I can’t stop/rest All I hear is people – City living Yeah I GET IT: BREATHE. MEDITATION. etcetera Still feels like an action This man needs Needs the love of a woman It’s not meant to be this lonely Questions, Basho   ? ...

  Question (Individualism) Australia: Alone grieving the death of my brother  How many phone calls Do you reckon I’ve received  A few social media likes etc  Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  Geez ur gotta take urself seriously for harikari, malaka!   If you allow urself To be silenced on the plight of others Out of fear of personal embarrassment Ur part of the problem Fuck embarrassment! The correct response is Laughter Or “Pay Me!!!”     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  ON GETTIN KICKED OUT OF PLACES:   There’s wars goin on & ur gonna kick me out Coz some brat (dobber) Is feigning upset by a word not aimed at them Those who throw the first stone Always pretend victim Passive aggression Is bullying!     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.

  “Don’t choke”/Circular breathing   “…greed will eventually consume itself:   cometh the desert winds of change…” – Uncle Kev Carmody   TOO RAW FOR THE DIVERSITY CROWD YOUTH VICTIM BLAME LIKE BAD FAITH HOW CAN U BE AN ATHEIST WHEN U DON’T KNOW WHAT GOD IS?   Ethics: A victim of fashion How do we avoid being performative To narcissists without memory of Echo, as Rhath knows Some people just get mad at ya For being & doing: “the right action comes of itself own course” (Lao Tzu) Isn’t that what unity & inclusion in ‘diversity’ is about? & choose ur approach more carefully When ur conceited WHAT IS! IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT ISN’T!   “boundraarz” If someone got mad I think “fair play!” Coz someone attempted suicide So YES, IT’S A BIT INTENSE AT OUR TABLE!!! What the fuck? When do we ever talk about suicide & preventing it & how we’re all culpable That someone can fee...