Have You Lived?

Did you skip school

Make prank phone calls

Get set up on a blind date

Call someone a fool

Shoot a gun

Watch someone’s breath begun

Cry yourself to sleep

Watch a pet fall of its feet?

Fly in a plane

Visit another land

Travel to the opposite side of the world

Stand at the Grand Canyon

And call?

Vote donkey

Watch democracy die?

Serve on a jury,

without losing your mind?

Got lost,

Was lost

Scream get lost!

Felt loneliness’ frost.

Play cowboys and Indians

Recently coloured with crayons.

Play cops and robbers,

Have an unnatural fear of clowns.

Sing karaoke, even a duet,

Loud and proud.

Pay for a meal with only coins and sweat.

Laugh until your drink came out of your nose,

Catch a snowflake on your tongue,

Write sensitive prose?

Have a child

Buy a pet

skinny-dip with a friend,

you had only just met?

Go fishing

Gone fishing

Catch a fish

Row a boat

Scream downhill on snow

Ski on the end of a rope.

Fly a kite

Go camping, sleep in a caravan

Pitch a tent,

Ride a motorcycle,

Take a bet.

Bungee-jump into a ravine?

Cuddle in front of a drive-in screen,

Until the glass fogged up,

And you were corrupt.

Did something that could have killed you?

Have a regret that will always be with you?

Ride an elephant,

Smell a camel,

Eat cookies for a day,

Live on TV dinners in May.

Steal a traffic sign, and

Attach it to your bedroom wall?

Like a boy.

Crash a car into a pole,

Get admitted to hospital for 24.

Get locked up by the pigs.

Donate blood.

Get fined for speeding,

get a piercing, get a tat,

buy a four wheel drive vehicle,

like all the other fools.

Buy your dream car

get married

file for divorce

Fall in love

Discover irreconcilable differences

Like all the rest.

Pay for a stranger’s meal,

buy sex just to feel?

Drive over the speed limit,

publish a book

eat snails

Swim in the Ocean

dive with a tank

get smashed?

Fall back to earth?

And love Major Tom

to the end.

 

Man vs Animal

I’d save my dog from a burning house

Before I’d save someone I didn’t know,

But I don’t think it has to be necessarily so.

I’m not an animal liberationist, just an honest smo.

The World Would Be A Better Place

Stop listening to the news

It will only make you confused

It shouts loud, serious, never funny

Because that is how they make their money.

Effeminate

Dollish

Wispish

Kiddish

Minxish.

Impish

Lispish

Swish, swish,

Fingers click

Gone in a jiff.

The Bore

Boring man

Talks all he can

You didn’t see

From where he sprang.

You fidget and jig,

Just a bit,

Look at you watch,

Scratch your head.

You’d run,

if you could,

but you tune out

instead.

Roll your eyes

At worst

Wish for death,

His, not yours.

A run away truck

Before he begun.

Old age

The way

His story

Is spun.

A terrorist

With a gun.

Amen.

Hipster

Dish, dish,

A foodie wish.

Swish, swish,

“Oh the boorish!”

Bitch, bitch,

Eat the clawfish

It is hip.

Trend

This is the coolest shit,

It flashes and moves a bit,

It is the latest “must have it.”

Until the next one hits.

Moral Outrage

Moral outrage 

is alive and well 

throbbing like the artery 

of our conscious hell

Secret Government Business

Secretive

Governments

Corrupt

Brave New World

The news

Is provided

By PR machines

University research

Is paid for

By business teams

The internet 

Is used

For TV screens

Welcome to

The brave

New world.

Where the truth

Is re-conceived

For you

And me.

On 24 hour

Repeat.

Wonder Bread

We remove the heart and soul from wheat

We grind up what is left into zombie flour

White and fluffy and sweet.

And then we wonder why we are all obese?

Wonder why we are all fat and pale and weak.

What's in a Name?

Patriot and terrorist

they are the same thing

disenfranchised and scared

trying to claw back 

what they think is theirs.

The end always justifies the means.

 

Breaking Hearts

I pick up boys from the bar

I think it is funny when I break their hearts

It makes me feel really good

it makes me feel how I think I should.

You know, it is a game I play

You are all fair prey

All is fair, as they say

I can only love this way.

Excuse me, you all know the rules

You can't claim to be anyone's fools.

Sitting there on backless stools

Propping the bar with the other fools.

Standing on the front line

“Innocence,” you say. “Is mine!”

Your guile is sublime

Hanging on the meat rack divine.

Golden Sun

Golden sun in the morn

You're shaky and forlorn

Red sun at night

You're as high as a kite

Showing Bulldogs in Bendigo (a.k.a. racists in Bendigo)

They show bulldogs in Bendigo

And somehow pretend

That their views of fear

Benefit mankind.

They pass off their ignorance

As caring for their fellow man,

All the time putting “different” down,

For what reason, who knows?

They make a big deal

About people who burn the flag,

As if that means anything at all.

asking for laws to be passed,

that suit their world view.

They don’t like what “they” wear,

especially if it covers “their” hair,

the god “they” follow

they only like theirs, which is shallow.

They don’t like “their” food,

They don’t like “their” mood

They don’t like “their” beliefs

They say are crude.

It is with great concern

That they speak out for the truth,

Their white, middle class

Anglo Saxon ignorant remarks,

That somehow becomes a fear

Of anybody not like them,

Even though they’d deny it

To the very end.

They put down anybody

with who they don’t agree

speaking double talk

so understanding can’t be achieved,

which they wear as a protective cloak,

accusing the accuser

of the crimes they commit,

so they never have to

give an explanation

to which they have to submit.

They are ignorant of their ignorance

But I’m sure that suits them just fine,

They don’t want to understand,

They just want to react, and stay blind.

Anybody who goes into reasons why

Deeper than they are comfortable with,

They claim not to understand,

Bleating social engineering, of the worst kind.

And from all of this ignorance,

From all this fear they make a stand

As they show bulldogs in Bendigo

Aint that grand.

At Least I Am Kinder

I don't need you to disapprove of me, 

if that is all you have to offer, 

I'd rather be on my own, 

where I can disapprove of myself, 

at least I am a little kinder.