Live Your Life

While you live,

Laugh.

While you sing,

Smile.

While you dance,

Be free.

While you love,

Be true.

Someone Who Knows You

Life is always better when you’ve got someone to sing to,

someone looking back at you who knows you,

because if you don’t have those friendly eyes,

what would be the point of life?

Virus

21st Century Blues

Every year 

We drift further away

From Aladin Sane

Who was topped

By something as prosaic

As infinitely repeating cells

And now we face down

A virus that is going 

to take us to hell,

The end of the world as we know it

Check your circuits, 

there's something wrong

Wash your hands

And don’t touch your face

We’ve come this far

There’s no going back.

A Moment

The moment

I love,

When I have turned out the light

At night,

And I sit on the edge of the bed

In the dark,

And I can hear the noises of the city

Outside,

As I sit protected in a cocoon of darkness 

Alone,

Quiet and still in the shadows 

Of the day.

Australia Day

A reasonable person couldn’t

Deny it is invasion day

History speaks of this truth,

And since nobody disputes that

It is a day for everyone,

If you are outraged by the change of day,

You are speaking for white privilege. 

Patriots

Patriots

Simple fools

Waving national flags

In place of intelligent discussion.

Patriots

The deplorables

Who escaped the baskets

To bore us all with their narrow vision.

Patriots

Generally, part of the deluded religious

Who think God and country

Are the same thing.

Patriots

Those of us who are

Usually lacking in opportunity

Who cling to clichés, devoid of thought.

Patriots

Those who were scared

By their parent’s poverty of ideas

Making up for it ever since by being cunts.

Patriots

People who think an over developed

Sense of country, makes up for

All other disappointments in life.

Patriots

People who don't generally

Understand the power

Of healthy scepticism.

Patriots

Someone who doesn't usually

Realise their mother was

A woman rather than a saint.

Patriots

Who have so little imagination

The only thing they can think to revere

Is the dirt under their feet.

Patriots

So unworldly

They have little understanding

That it is people and not continent there is to admire.

Patriots

Misguided fools

Getting Southern Cross Tattoos

Like they mean something profound.