baby likes it when i get polemical i say stuff like torture’s bad
but punching is good she’s like no that’s wrong
so i can be the libertineletter home says : tram routes are astrology for melbourne
if you calculate them right you can make a profitable investment
a chance meeting opens doors to success and friendship
you can fall in love under the 86 at its zenith
g’day is the secret joke word strangers hide it in their mouths
like a gold coin donation
before they say something fucking awful look i’ll do it for you
dialectics, poetics, reflexivity, hybridity… ummmm.trauma……..we are all
very sad herevery sad about our bodies our boyfriends & global warming
our fictitious babies die in heat waves & food riots on the pikes of the faceless
& terrible ordernot you & me tho aye babe ours died in a petri dish in the future
& we can’t afford them our eggs are fried anyway
our eggs are smashed up on the floor of our fortress
our paint-by-numbers mansion we do mindfulness
on the marble floors resisting the cheap narratives of resistance
we say piss off
we say look we’re marxists but we don’t go outside we stole the money
for this fortress from our dads actually we are squatting
our dads are no good we cower on the chaise longue
& our lives flash before us like a formula we like the colours
on the toxic smog horizon & there’s some good political invective before
the rays melt our skulls you try & take a picture but it happens really fast
i love your skullo melbourne o heatwave dead possums & no-one to bury them
it’s all dangerous & horrible but kinda hot like that time i got roofied
in williamsburg
& you dragged my limp body down the corridor of a midtown hotel
like it was really bad but it’s a good story if you know your audience“the paths of glory lead but to the grave” so said my granddad
he told me while he ate a bread roll then he went to sleep
i took it it was good advice i took a nap in the yellow wood
you tried to be a thought leader or a public intellectual
me i knew i’d be a staro! o! we love each other like limpets in the big fear one day somebody’s
gonna say girls you’re not that devastating
& it won’t matter & we won’t care the dirt moves out from under our feet
the thwarted seasons reach a human scale & your skull
the loveliest bleached egg on the vast rock
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones