No Cites like the Cites Hum In

By | 1 August 2016
This cities are builted on times land.

  Whites made a date to root their women’s

Season flow in times of hardship

winds live below the feets that walk

 the flower smell on the mouth we smell.

Fields desires passion for workers pays are hard yacaring

Bend on back,send to spend never expect lended.

All towns don’t twin cities cos your unemloyments

tongus are adanceing over number

(who want to work for an opperssioner anger)

The mountain kiss a ever-lasting love,stop houses being made in mountain.

Let the cave below the seas be our beds

Have the ray shine by ground skies giving a path-way over lands recratives.

This cities don’t remind me of the countries once was.

Hate hidden by white man calendar in 800 years,

one big museum ,as even eyes await rain drops in the dry light off days.

Were are the many stars

Were are the so much clounds

May space stop the travel by sit down and lazzy out people’s ;

(Make no bills for the billi’s) Soil is a toil needing all to recoil).

Your cities are not our living life

but you all live not shared and must have grassroot rights.

Homeland is earth’s lust ,High class shall fall as shatted grass.

They dust tail in details for a cause spend on the big notes.

Written land can now till the cities where they are going.

Fields of face,give all flowers lit lifes

Fields of body gave all work greater words.

It’s times for the poets of real justice in

all sence to take over resigons polaltic ,(also the Mac book ”funny hands on faces”

It’s stop time for all to care to kick war out of extines .

This is a timeless cities musised by tunes told and untold, Hey yet to be written .

Remmber the gun wespon are them?

800 TO ONE
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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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