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soapboxer rebellion
03:10
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in the clearing a soapboxer drown
in a tidal wave of conviction and faith
he’s disguised as insidious behind a
rank pantomime of love and affection
the man on the corner just looks on
in abandoned, statuesque form
he leans on his broom refusing to sweep,
all alone, saying nothing at all:
soapboxer says it all, before he falls
“won’t you help me please?
I’m all alone here, above you,
won’t you get down on your knees
and listen to me speak my peace”
the sweeper’s wife drunk on the torpor,
she’s the dux of cultural débutantes,
a pillaged despair left there to suffer such
cruel, procreational doldrums
is today the day she comes alive armed to the teeth
with the tools of social inflection,
will he burn, will he year, will he turn
in the same direction, I don’t think so
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the edge of learning
03:55
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I drew you as a small boy who
never thought a tree could smell so nice
but you drew on an experience
when I never got no advice ...
while I never had sex and thought of jesus christ
looking down on me: for you .....
did you die or did you lie or did you just escape?
I don’t care what they think, I hope you didn’t leave it too late
I’ve been dangerously close to the edge of learning
but turned & found my way back home again
asked a god for directions – didn’t exist? – couldn’t say?
had to be satisfied with making it up along the way
but I drew the line in my altruistic mind before your
hidden tragedy could become clear to me
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met a man in a laundrette gift shop,
he swore the things he said were true
haunting tales of anal bleaching out in the suburbs
see gangs of buck-toothed facebook freaks
sporting signed Eddie Maguire masks
stump fucking two-dollar shop King Kong piñatas
and they say, and they say, and they say, I’m not racist,
some of my best friends are, casually racist,
some of my best friends
in desperate times they fall for disparate pleasures
a rising tide of prancing feaux-ties
all vying for tax exempt status
bears all the hallmarks of another
inner city wife-swabbing craze where
patrioticons emerge from man-caves
with alarming levels of testicular anger
seven degrees of separation from the king maker to king hitter
and they say, and they say, and they say, I’m not racist,
some of my best friends are;
old school mates I haven’t seen in years,
the pretty girls I used to fancy
who have really let themselves go,
home alone while hubbie’s out reading meters,
the fucker sticking up lost-dog posters
and everyone waiting in line
at the rose tattoo revival staring
daggers at the boutique bigots
drinking ‘locally sourced’ almond milk
with their cunting burgers;
all circle-hating to photos of Andrew Bolt
licking his own fair skinned balls
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Genghis Cardigan Adelaide, Australia
Incoherent mumblings, yahtzee and pennywart juice - the back, sack and crack of our times.
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regurgitated rice pudding that projectiles out of your mouth while listening and we’ll refund your body weight in ricen. Genghis Cardigan, semi-professionally easing lockdowns since 2004.
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