Whatever I do now
I’ll have your consensus
against me— quite right to say
you snow in the tropics only at the
highest altitude of your own risk
if you want an alternative Australia.
But you & your consensus don’t
do you, sport? Sports? Father?
It’s only your economy, after all—
refining, processing, high-tech.
We’re very alike, aren’t we?
Drunk or Prime Minister.
I envy you the choice
I don’t have. If I laid bare
a city room over a city arcade
to a bare mattress on bare floorboards
spoon & matches & leather & high-tech
& four bare walls lighting up
the rainforest like dawn
through my veins
I wouldn’t need to take
the rainforest into the rainforest.
I’d be ideologically purer
than the pure white in my flour
detergent & bicarb of soda.
There’d be no holes in my logic.
No interviews. No tears.
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The End
And that’s the End of the Poem
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