Intervention
by the Bigger Chooks
( after Chrysogonus “Just Another Day of
Ramadan In Serang")
Gawaymbanha
Welcome to the high roost
the pecking order’s velvet cushion
place
of privilege
place of knowing
just what best
to do
pronouncing all
for all
to see the me the me
eating wattleseed in cafes Banksy
on the wall
fingerlimes in jam here yet
living life on lands no no
can’t be so
not viable the feet speak kicking
tin bulldozing
walls community not viable
still writing up the menu
for lunch
here in shitty city
life
all stolen goods exotic
stories never ending
wars
not viable my arse itches
up here
on this straw
Lucerne grade three though it be
not complaining no other
chook shitting
on my head
got to call that bliss
at night I see the shadows thrown
by the them
those who are
not am
the flickering lamplight shadows
pale phantoms in our dream
ngaliguna
always always
someone gots to crow
you know
at dawn
*Gawaymbanha Welcome ( invite to come)
Wiradjuri language NSW
*ngaliguna he and I ( excluding the others) " "

This is very empowering
ReplyDeleteI am glad. Always a government elite wants the postcard prettiness of a culture eh?
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