Monthly Archives: March 2024

Asylum Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
 Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me From “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus 1883 On the Statue Of Liberty To imprison asylum seekersIs a crime masquerading as necessityIndefinite detention will make future historians wonderWhy racism flourished in our timeHabeasContinue reading “The Last Elderly Melodies”

Shock Jocks Wisdom is a fleeting thingVery scarce these daysEven though radio guiding lights constantly say they have itThey babble on interminablyAccording to the planMouthing ultra-conservative blimpish discourseAs dictated by their mastersSo advocates of social change are communistsThe climate is not warmingForeigners are flooding our nationSelected countries threaten our bordersThere, reactionary politicians are interviewed favourablyWhileContinue reading “Yet More Elderly Melodies”

On Truth It’s an ephemeral thing, truthElusiveYet somehow an incitement when you find itA way of seeing thingsThat gives you unexpected powerThe confidence to think wiselyTo influence people in a worthy wayAnd expose false prophetsYou can be sure somewhere, some timeYou will need it desperatelySo often in life we are beset with chasms of deceitEntrappedContinue reading “Still More Elderly Melodies”

Qu’est-ce la vie sans rêve?* So the court has decided somethingRather has stated the obviousIt has always been illegal to imprison without trialTo ignore habeas corpusOr to gaol someone for not breaking a lawAlas and alack!This has been doneIn Australia’s sordid past and continues todayWhat’s all the fuss thenAbout criminals set free to obey aContinue reading “More Elderly Melodies”