Cops are poets on the looks sit hears cobs

By | 1 August 2016



Lionel Fogarty | on pigs skpies


(COMMON COPS COBS AND CODES)

He the poetry fee mans says yes greater idea,

To have cops who done wrong to first Australians’

Get out a books in personal poloidal postconiel poems.

Well it will sell as pigs fights pigs ,piss on shit

P=process I interdents G guts Sorting .

Police pleasant in laws,outars your home poet lawless.

She says polices literatures’ will be ripe,

Cliveing palms hands four leafs climp

Wagon as if protest writers stood ,

Over 10 cops associated at a paddy the wagon

Poets don’t honk a yakka don’t know your smell ,

Nah never buys polices poetry yet ,out of the uniformed where,

Is your formed words.

He’s saves the David an lion,log an log writings invitee’s

Frontlines offices writers to be pub wished dead launches;

Officers do lit bug literatures’.

He rights wings appeared to show alines to cop of the enfroces

That killed took cizten lifers aways.

To have equality siting talking with authors protest challenges’ poets

Now’s for the fee;

Sell us these class fall for unity turn bull sorter literatures’.

(So the cops can’t write this seeks peep weeps by their morning

Honking honest ,nights drians officers writers,

Mad pig days sleep to arisen ciztens to ,

  honk
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Lionel Fogarty was born in 1958 at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, in the South Burnett region of southern Queensland. Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, from the Land Rights movement, to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services, to the issue of black deaths in custody. His first collection of poetry, Kargun, was published in 1980, and he has gone on to publish eight further collections, as well as a children’s book, Booyooburra, a traditional Wakka Wakka story. Fogarty has also travelled widely in the United States and Europe, reading from his work and participating in conferences of Indigenous peoples. An unabashedly political poet, Fogarty’s poetry employs Aboriginal English in innovative ways, challenging readers to reconfigure cultural assumptions.

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