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By Jinjirrie, on September 10th, 2015  I’m a liberal trothawk
You’re a vulture neocon –
Let’s get together, sweetheart,
Bomb Syria to kingdom come.
Though we’ve never been to war,
we fight bravely on the net,
Calling leftists ‘Stalinists’
and other smeary epithets.
None can match our western tongues
for running down those reds –
we’ll both be ‘lil Hitchens’,
still carping on our death beds.
Collect a ticket to the front,
we’ll prove our mettle there –
who can run home fastest
to our comfortable armchairs.
Write a mercenary blog post,
have a lovely cup of tea –
It’s so civilised watching
wars we’re abetting on TV!
September 2015
By Jinjirrie, on August 7th, 2015 Kanaka House
In viny shrouds, grey weatherboards
frame walls to shield a hidden story
Morning glory mantle streams
Dark mango trees press at the side.
On banksias and broken gate
peer empty eyes where plantation men
murdered outcasts, blacks by whites
In cold hatred hunted down.
Bush lemons march in ragged row
Fruits lie rotting on the ground
Collapsed beehives sting blady grass
By the door, two crosses lean.
Worn names traced in spider silk
scratched by some rough implement
Abiding solitary witnesses
To a century of bush sanctuary.
August 2012
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By Jinjirrie, on July 31st, 2015 Hey look over there!
the shock jocks screech
roll up, roll up, punters
at today’s imperial circuses
Cecil the lion is sacrificed
on millions of web pages
may the dentist be devoured!
all together, outrage!
(slash the minimum wage
there’s a TTIP to push through
rotten Bouffant Bronwyn’s
helicoptering soon forgotten
no need for scrutiny by you).
I stand with Adam Goodes
and cheer his imaginary spear
in the arena of discontent
where all the rules are bent
a lawyer sneers at racist masses
in Murderdoch’s business rag
the ruling class has free passes.
Same time tomorrow, folks –
delectably unethical
the news cycle will supply
another glorious spectacle.
July 2015
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The “lawyer article” referred to in the poem.
By Jinjirrie, on July 18th, 2015 racist brands take a stand with oppression hand in hand capitalist charities affirm disparities freedom and the bantustans the moneygoround grinds in sordid imperial embrace and your silence is assent your bullying, self-defence while others realise dreams resist the Beast’s foul schemes and your wall’s stacked solid with sycophancy praising white supremacy your struggle, your . . . → Read More if you dare: Long Division
By Jinjirrie, on July 11th, 2015 At present, Ali Abunimah is in France, speaking in Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Lyon, marking 10 years since the advent of the 2005 BDS call and “the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza that killed more than 2,200 people and devastated the territory”. Ali Abunimah speaks on why there has . . . → Read More if you dare: Ali Abunimah On Gaza and BDS, 1 Year After Israel’s Last Massacre
By Jinjirrie, on June 19th, 2015 Hasbaroid, he was a hasbaroid Scummier than you and me Hasbaroid, for a hasbaroid Palestinians must not be free. Hasbaroid, he was a hasbaroid, One talking point too many Hasbaroid, for a hasbaroid Palestinians must not be free. And he bored us a lot and he had a job of selling lies for Israel to . . . → Read More if you dare: Hasbaroid
By Jinjirrie, on June 9th, 2015 at midsummer feast he measures her bones the incline of her neck grey eyes like his own and she in communion surrenders her grip he captures the pearls that tumble and slip purloined, coveted he holds them fast dons robe and talisman nascent jewels past at village harvest her mother had worn with oracle sisters . . . → Read More if you dare: Sol Invictus
By Jinjirrie, on May 25th, 2015 Appearing in promotional shots in mud blackface, the Backstreet Boys besmirched themselves not only by flaunting the Palestinian-led boycott of Israel, but by becoming complicit with Israel’s crimes against Palestinians, marketing apartheid products. Photographed frolicking in the Dead Sea to promote Premier Dead Sea Cosmetic Laboratories, the Backstreet Boys muddied their own brand with Israel’s . . . → Read More if you dare: Backstreet Boys Smeared With Apartheid Mud
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