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Street Talk
Fixwrite Press - 23 pages
Hard hitting poetry of social
comment
Contents:
Public Housing Australia
Advance Australia fair
Access
Home of (no) Mercy
Man of the Town
Race to the Top
Urban Artist
Paul
Frocked in
Black
The Commercial
Hard Times #1
Hard Times #2
At the End
Frocked in
Black
he stands
frocked in black
that swishes in a seduction of threat
as he turns slowly
to select from the smorgasbord before him
short panted boys
bursting with life
and a spirit that he
and others of his ilk
had the power to dull
he watches
from his covey of power
to seek his prey
one separated from the flock
eager for attention
his shadow falls upon a child
isolated from his peers
by his differences
a timidity that shows
as the predator smiles
and lays his hand on the shoulder
gently, authoritatively
possessively
he teases his prey
into the vestry of despair
to the altar of pain and confusion
where love and hate intermingles
another boyhood sacrificed
to the lust of celibacy
© Merlene Fawdry
At the End
And...
at the end
there are only
dry eyes
that start vacantly
at the sorrows of the past
©
Merlene Fawdry
Public Housing
Australia
wide streets intersect the treeless plain
of the housing subdivision
a uniformity of rooftops
spreading to the horizon
low slung wire fences
ordering grassless lots
of design cloned houses
built for those who live
on the fringe of society
bydetermination of the state
wide streets intersect the treeless plain
of the housing subdivision
showing an abstract of street art
with a difference
for there is no colour
in the curves of black rubber
on the patched tarmac
woven in an open-ended knot
to demarcate the territory
of the natives who live within
wide streets intersect the treeless plain
of the housing subdivision
quiet in the mid-morning sun
Toranas and Lasers resting
in dusty front yards
and oil stained driveways;
weary warhorses
of the urban warrior.
their armour against nonentity
in the class divide of life
wide streets intersect the treeless plain
of the housing subdivision
where a torn curtain shivers
behind a broken window
held together with yellowed tape,
an unblinking eye watches
the solitary police car
as it trawls the streets
in anticipation and expectation
of a good days catch
wide streets intersect the treeless plain
of the housing subdivision
designed to protect the social order
of the city’s bourgeoisie
through bureaucratic consignment
of those its assesses as worthy
to live in this wasteland
on the edge of society
where they must rise to meet
the challenge to survive
© Merlene Fawdry
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