Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

  is it cultural? just copped a very nasty officious young woman. made me feel like shit. too many haters out there. any tip? dance? are white feminists all man haters? you try to be friendly & they're really nasty. what's their problem? is it a class thing, is it a race thing, is it resentment? they don't smile. habitually unhappy? australia's prison culture? screws? please send me a song. i really need to feel you near my love xx that's better ❤️💫 thanx🎇 mel from melbourne 2026.

  Man walking on Eggshells (after Herbert Simmons) Intergenerational trauma runs deep Catharsis is a crucial thing that PC wishes to suffocate xx In art we get out of the cage & finally we're allowed to fly Like a bandaid rip in a river stream Just don't go wading there On ulll catch something you can't eat & shit  Fuck it, it's over But still they keep coming with more nets to catch u I can't swim the river's gone dry But still I gotta fly Breathing techniques don't work everytime & man wasn't born to sit Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2026.

  sketch of the early days of a fall the fall began when an acknowledgement of Country was misused at my regular poetry reading in Fitzroy & I alone spoke out against it duting the interval. a fortnight later I met a lovely old Fitzroy battler who shared the afternoon with me before coming to the poetry reading with me, before they left fearing the inevitable judgement of hipsters against Naarm's underclass, a good percentage of whom are Indigenous. next was the sight of a stranger sitting alone in a skull & crossbone bandana where blakfella have sit ever since whenever outside 7/11. a week later i met a blakfella mate near my home in Calton who'd slept rough outside the aforesaid 7/11 who seemed very distressed. the next day I walked to the 7/11 corner & loudly reminded him & the tourists there about on which Country they stood. I walked back home emotional & recovered by listening to Archie's Charcoal Lane record quietly that night on my small bluetoot...