Tortoise
Shell
By Malachi
Doyle
25/06/2026CE
Carlton
Wurundjeri
Woi Wurung Country, Kulin Nation
(non-Indigenous
Australian)
Treaty!
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
Taking care
not to paranoi – walk outside! – Euphoria – don’t get on a plane!
The trap
with isolation
The dissolve
of the composite married self
& even
the street self
Butting up
against “triggers & heartbeats” (McCarthy/Maginness)
Of
otheringness
medico-legico-magisterial-Court construct
Prison/Psychiatry
& a free
bird
In a flock
formation
Flying into
the ever expanding horizon light & delicious winter sun dappling
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
Naarm/Carlton
15/06
‘The Kid’
(for Charlie Chaplin)
No offence:
I tolerate
you
But these
are our streets –
The kid’s
& mine & our hood –
Coffee
smokes & slurpee drinkers unite!
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
‘Gratitude
to a youngster from an elder’
1.
Thank you my
junior
You solved
my calculus id-ache –
A toilet
paper lined blue bucket spittoon –
Today’s
masterpiece –
Welcome
ARTIST!
--
2.
Peace
As/& the
making of Peace –
D’you want
the last word?...
--
3.
Tomorrow
3 things –
One for me
Two for you;
Then,
Only one
thing a day
Combined
For 5 days –
We’re set
like a jelly!
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
The preacher
gathered the children
To accuse
them innocent
Of a crime
& called
it ‘Worship’
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
“Exercise”
is what they say (Haha)
Tedious
dday
Woolworths
in Collingwood
Gutted
For
housing development
CHECK
One
supermarket left:
$69 for
150g of Kava
$8 for
milk
CHECK
Kicked of
pub
For
“moving around
&
talking to different groups of people”
Public
Houses
In fact “private”
Owned by
“David Samuels”
Who is
not recorded to own any pub or hotel in Melbourne
CHECK
No
Blackfella on the street
“Sorry”
Met some
sheilas
Who gave
me a chip + 1
CHECK
Met nice
Englishman
Who
shared a cigarette + 1
While we
watched the World Cup on his phone
I said
“get citizenship”
When we
au revoir-ed
Good
people poets
Too
stressed to answer their phone
Everything
on it recorded or surveilled
By whom?
CHECK
Recovering
my poise
Trying
Bumpers
collected
To smoke at home
Over saladas & tuna
Books are expensive to make
Phone out of data
Schubert’s ‘Death & the Maiden’
String Quartet
Helps the nerves
Walked the streets today
& as my Jamaican-Australian
brother Richard
Has so consistently pointed out:
“It’s CRAZY out there”
Go Thorpey!!!!
Genocide of First Nations Peoples
& their Allies pushed away by
their so called “own”
Who owns me?:
Cannot buy my soul*
Published & Copyright Malachi
Doyle 2026.
16/06/2026CE
“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
Man it’s
like peanuts
Bring me the
epi-pen!
Make sure it
hasn’t passed its used by date
No serving
of chocolate at school!
Anyway,
Indigenous Australia isn’t ‘trending’ at the moment
As usual
we’ve returned to ignoring
All
forgotten
Short
Memories
Fuckin
disgrace!
You don’t
need to be ‘told’ everything
You do some
work yourself
You have a
responsibility to know about where you live
Anyway, kids
Homework is
to investigate your home!
From before
the white man
To today
Do some
thinking
Allen
Liar
Coz she’s
worried about paying up compensation
& too
bloody right she should pay
The Stolen
Generations got mere words
& it’s
always mere words
Now thanks
to Disinformative Racists like the IPA’s* Andrew Bolt
Middle
Australians are ‘frightened of losing their homes’
Which planet
do we live on people?!
Have you
listened to anything Indigenous elders are talking about?
& how
almost superhumanly conciliatory they are?
Have you
read the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart?
Look at the
way of the world
& who’s
running it
& how in
denial the white man
Do you
really think that would ever happen?!
With banks,
mining companies, NewsCorp & the American military owning government
That’s
hysteria!
Paranoia
Not in a
pink fit would the Indigenous ever be advantaged by a Colonial Government
Indigenous
people are 20 times more likely to serve time in prison
So we, like
she, pretend we don’t know
Has she ever
been to a country town?
Look at the
names of the local sites
Hanging
Rock!
Hmm!
&
listened to the way people talk?
No?
It’s like
pretending you still believe in Santa Claus
So you get
better presents
Bad Faith
Australia
Land of
evils committed
Massacres
galore
Genocide
& eyes
turned blind
100% backed
by the law
&
smallpox
Who says
wasn’t deliberate
Read some
history people
‘Binge’ The
First Australians series
It’s on SBS
You can
still get your Menulog
Learn
something about where you live
A holiday to
Uluṟu ain't all there is
Here where I
stand, where you stand or sit
"A
child was born here"
(To borrow
from Archie Roach)
& you
know what?
A child was
probably killed too
*IPA -
Institute of Public Affairs is a Right-Wing think-tank funded in a major by the
Australian Mining Industry.
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2025.
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Geoff
Clarke
Why did they
close down ATSIC down
over the
supposed claims of sexual misconduct of one young man?
Seems a spot
of ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater?!’
&
somewhat hypocritical, non?
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
ey blokes!,
Stop fantasising about virgins If you’re lucky A woman may gift you Love making
I’m fuckin serious mate! Get it through your thick head! Old men retire! No
child brides Taliban-Drumpf-Bibi-XI-Putin-Musk-Oligarchs-Warlords etc!
Greatest
spy in the world might ‘turn’ me – a don’t care mate!
That se3xy
bitch
&
She
Knows
It
We
Lock
Eyes
Is
She
The
Gates
Of
Heaven
Or
The
Gates
Of
Hell?
Or
Both?
Eros
Thanatos
Eros
Deal
&
Shuffle
As
Many
Times
As
A
Night
Affords
We
Fuck
Baying
Out
Crying
Out
Calling
Out
Singing
Out
Like
Beasts
On
Heat
We don’t
give a hey!
I can’t help
it
You’re off
the page off
the p age
Hubba
Bubba
Bub!
…
Drool 😉
--
I forgot
I was
A
Man
I
Need
To
Lie down
I need
To get naked
& touch
myself
Wanna join
Me darlin?
Another
season with the shrink
Or I can
jack u off
--
Fuckin ell
Mate
She could
Subdue
Nations
Like
Cleopatra
Or
Helen
O’Troy!
--
What do u do
with that?!
Cold
Showers
Till
The
Cows
Come
Home
--
P.S.
The funny
thing of course
Is
As Zim
Saw:
She aches
& breaks
Woman &
girl
& me
Boy
In
Man…
…
But we both
Look one
Another
Deeply
In the eye
Intimacy
Eternity
Infinity.
…
…
Genealogy
Be
Damned!
& the
gods laugh
& dance
to the primeval
Primordial
drum…
Voila/Wallah!
--
I wanna mark
You deep
A keep
For
Sake
Slake
Wurundjeri.
Thurs 18th
June 2026CE.
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
Poor Musk
stick Floppy disk
“Evil
follows closely that ol Wizard of the Wind” – Kev Carmody
wind up
today
blowing from
the West
tousling the
pepper tree’s hair like a teenage boy dreaming on a football field before the
elbow to the head
&
lost time lights out!
Wher’d
he
wendy
go?
how?
Ask
First People’s
&
other’s ghosts
Name
one lot
to
know em
but
not the other
of
course
No
Names!
Careful…
light
Sun
Winter
Sun
Beautiful
Healing
candles
all
around
like
Fire
people
gathered
for
Corroborree
or
burning
‘witches.’
I
grew up on Bunerong
Shipston
Reserve
where
something is observed
but
I’m here
in
Wurundjeri
so
yunno
one
days
I’ll
go…
Here
“don’t
go there”
take
care
(Hope
that’s ok.
Respektfully
Our
mother
Stop
Killin
her
she’s
more
resilient
than
money
but
her heart’s hurting
&
we REALLY don’t wanna piss her off boy! Boy!
Eireann\scorched
feet Your Wild Colonial Heart Can’t…
Do!
Oi!
Do!
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
for
Christos
Foreigner
the
dappling pepper tree
yep,
that was real —
not
sure about the rest of this dreamed?
short
of culture
yet
the bullroarer speaks
in
dreams as in lived begins responsibility
unscrew
the head —
heart!
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
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Orphan or
Ward of the State
I see the
light
In his 13
years old eyes
What will
become of him?
Fight my boy
For the
bright
In a world
of dull & blunt
& dill
Be unique
Younique
Parles
Ecrit
Dream
Alert
Life
Like a wave
Higher
Than the
sets
Of troughed
dish water
Be on the
top of a mountain
Or under the
earth
Caves of
summer ice
A foreign
king
P.S.
Enjoy
Freely
The
Swim
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
Got outta
the car
In the
middle of the forest
7 headed to
the trickle
Of the
stream
7 the
droplets on the moss bark covering the rocks 7 the trees
On beautiful
truthful wonderful listening speaking embracing earth
How do I
love thee
Let me count
the ways
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& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
The bomb’s
gone off agin
In my
chambers
Candles
Flicker
7 cast
shadows
Weariness 7
fake energy hits
I stumble
The streets
7 haunts
7 coffees 7
cigarettes
coloured
glass it’s alright ma
radiance/radiation
yellow
is her new
umbrella
finally
something wet concrete
‘hmm’
At the piano
2 note chord
jaunty
“I don’t
understand
Property law
In this
country;
The stuff’s
Hot goods
Shouldn’t it
Be handed in
to
The space
police?
Thought
police.”
The young
Self
appointed
Social
coordinator
Orders from
Behind the
counter
“stop!”
Hmm…
I dream
Each
Haunted
House
& walk
each
Haunted
streets –
Midwinter
Naarm
‘Duality of
‘Spirituals’’
2 things
About
Talking
walls –
Ghosts
& the
Wizards of Oz –
The
authentic & the ersatz
Love &
madness:
When her
head split
The second
time
My head
split
The second
time.
Is that ok?!
Fuckin leave
me alone…
To heal…
Please…
Vanity
For a minute
there
I looked
down
Bugger!
& went
crazy
Many mock
trauma bonding, & victim blame
Cold
childhood
Cold
Neglect
Cold foster
homes
Cold Juvie
Cold release
Cold
dumpster bacon
Even love
When a man
Is cold
In & out
of jail
Friendship
Allusive
Cold
Hard to
Form
Functional
relationships
Cold
On the
street
Cold
Dried
Internal
Tears
Secrets
At 3.33am
Thanks for
the
Ear
Please share
a
Donut with
me
Kind
Stranger
I gotta go
on repeat
“we’re
worried about you?
you’re not
gonna kill urself are ya?”
on repeat
all comers
& goers
like
seagulls
fly
over
shit on ur
head
& fuck
off
as if baying
for blood
so they can
talk about ya
when ur gone
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
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Art
Art
Q: Quand est
l’art?
A:
L’histoire
Published
& Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.
A fly
caught fire
A fly caught fire
A fly caught fire & cast starlight across the moon
New as it was is the galaxy, the sympathy
We cried our little one a great
One
But now she is gone
I drove a horse led chariot underneath the milky way
& lost my life my memory my wife
When I awoke I had soaked the sheets
I was in a pitch black place
I did not recognize my face for my cheeks were ashen
& my nose was beetroot
Too many years had passed in a stupor
Like Coleridge I had squandered my gifts
Self destruction was the symphony of my life now
As if to prove how much I loved her
That without her I would suffer & disgrace
I could not remember her face
At times I doubted were she a delusion?
A nurse, no more, & me inured in an institution
Still I loved her & love knows no bounds
& so, so, I became the sad clown.
Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2024.
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Nihon-ji
Doshite
Doshite!
Doshite!!
Increased
consumerism for decades
Single use
items for every delivery
Where does
the rubbish go?
Sacred
sites?
Life is
sacred?
*Poem
written contains space junk
We
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