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August 2011

 
Contributors
 

Rosetta Allan
Jenny Argante
Gigi Fenster
Helen Heath
Kerry Hines
David Howard
Andrea Jeftanovic
André Naffis-Sahely
James Norcliffe
Maris O'Rourke
Jack Ross
L.E. Scott
Campbell Taylor
Alan Wall
Hayden Williams

Issue 16 Guest Artist:
Tom Mutch

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Click to enlarge picture Click to enlarge picture. Lounge Room Tribalism by Jack Ross  

 

Lounge Room Tribalism

                For Graham Fletcher

I

Faux sauvage
that was the
term we coined
for our in
terior
design phi
losophy
unholy
amalgam
of Gauguin
& Magritte
a strictly
rational
naïve
té subord
inated
to the cor
ridor that
you can't take
beside the
window look
ing out on
that wild lawn

 

II

CYCLONE BABY
BEING BORN IN
CAIRNS the baby
will not be called
Yasi said the
English midwife
Akiko does
n't like that name
at all she add
ed that the pa
rents didn't know
the sex yet but
expected it
to be born in
the next few hours

 

III

You see the dilem
ma? on the one hand
our instinctive o
beisance to Na
ture John Cowper Po
wys nodding to the
stones Malcolm Lowry
identifying
with the survival
of his pier at Dol
larton a facile
kinship with the de
structive element
designed to keep it out
side in the storm

 

IV

You are duty bound to
help the activities
are malicious mena
cing & happening now
do not rely on o
ther people I am in
fear of my life I am
seeking justice for my
stolen life I am o
pen to all offers of
assistance telecoms
and industry bodies
must stop all polluting
frequency use fix this
problem now this is
a legal demand