Melbourne to Darwin
The Shopping Centre
Not knowing whether to be scared or to be content
Make your judgment
Halo or devil
We describe our persona of creepy
In our religious manifestations
In our children books
In our stories
In our movies
Our hell on earth
Permitting the dead to guide our fear and vision
Peter went shopping
In our hallowed place of transaction
To think and talk about probability
To keep the gate open for approved believers
To revoke the others who continue to seek knowledge
Our gatekeeper of the significant fell into a moment
And became lost in thought
He let his guard down
There on a humble symbol of power
Laid down to rest
Control
A situation began to unfold
No-one saw who claimed it
Everyone knows Key 6 was extensively employed to establish Terra Australis Incognita
To support those of divine grace to access the fruits of this new world
To impose those bereaved from grace and imposed to a fate of generational poverty
The moment in which Peter forgot about key 6
Was not on an average day
The preaching son was lost in his moment
As he chanted God loves you all, a Pontianak stole control
Such is the path of a Saint
Peter's Key inspected St James Cathedral
Melbourne's first cathedral
Of Colonial Georgian aesthetic
Too small for purpose
An insufficient statement for ambitious Marvellous Melbourne
Saved by key pioneer families
By Royal Charter
We chose not to see
Our exclusive right
To self fiction
To mask the horror inflicted
We simply turned a blind eye
And inflicted extermination, genocide, and sickness
Infliction
From begging to missionaries and domestic servants
To an inter-generational underclass
The Settlers Reigned Down Under
With their sheep
And their beef
And their homes
And their wants
And their names
And their beliefs
And their justice
Until trade and commerce was established
And controls were legislated
Melbourne Town needs a Bishop
1847 A Cathedral City
The establishment of a bishopric requires city status
The Bishop needs a Cathedral
A deterministic paradigm
Avoid marrying the commoners
You are in a special position
Of controlling the new lands
To terraform a frontier society
A decent society
Continually under threat
Containing the deported
All those persons charged as undesirable
Their depravity
Their madness
Their sexual promiscuity
Their sickness
You are ordained to cultivate a civilization Through your appearance, dignity, and restraint
You are to privilege those who have symbolic capital
Those civic leaders
Those charged with a moral purpose
Those who value social determinism
Provisioning
Land grants
Cheap labor
Systems of denigration for those not white enough
Smoothing the dying pillow
Infrastructure
Cathedrals
Grand public edifices
Parliament buildings
Art galleries
Libraries
Theatres
For those who are vagrants, lazy and practice sexual impropriety
You must self-help
You will not be a burden on our prosperity
Our empathy is unfunded
You of limited political voice
You of limited aspiration
The sorcerer's machine
For ethnographic records
And anthropometric recording
For keep sake
Seeking curiosities
Seeking exotica
Seeking their otherness
The aesthetics of novelty
The values that bring artists distinction
The sorcerer on his wonder-working machine
Stealing their souls and stealing their secrets
Bringing sickness to the New World
Sensing immortality the soul departs
Technology to contain grief
Art fashioning mourning
Posing with the dead
Dead eyes
Eyes of trauma
Eyes of depression
Rigid
Expressionless
Just staring at me
Remember you must die
Tuberculosis
Smallpox
Measles
Chickenpox
Cholera
Whooping cough
Influenza
Diphtheria
Scarlet fever
Rubella
We blame the monster
But not the power hierarchy
Not the prejudices
Not societal fears
Our monsters lurk in caves
We are afraid
Of the wrong people
Of being taken advantage of
Racial sublimation
Repulsion
Impulse
Social contagion
Colonialist manifesting depredation
These the artifacts of colonial enterprise
Posing with the dead
His habits were very intemperate
In the company of the degraded
Of both sexes
Dead eyes
Eyes of trauma
Bringing sickness to the New World
They looked out for him
Trying to contain their grief
To remember their own death
You are ordained to cultivate a civilization
You are to privilege those who have symbolic capital
By posing with the dead
In the company of the degraded
Through the eyes of the dead
And eyes of trauma
The Sorcerer and his wonder-working machine
Creating art through duress
Treating subjects as curiosities
As exotica
Seeking their essential otherness
For novelty value
Through small bribes
Bedazzling the unsophisticated natives
Stealing their secrets
Stealing their souls
To claim glory
And recognition from within the establishment
The Sorcerer Joe Byrne Ned Kelly
A flashy writer
A republican sympathizer
The Cantonese speaking bushranger
Strung up and photographed
Victoria as a great and free and independent Republic
The North-Eastern Victoria Republic Movement
Crushed and removed
The Queen, the Business Man and Marvellous Melbourne
Wisdom, Mercy, and Christianity
The biggest
Booming
Cosmopolitan
Fuelled by extravagant stories of wealth
The empire goes for gold
Prosperity
Opportunity
Enacting penal violence
Regulating civil force
The divine efficiently mitigated
Exploitation
Murder
Devastation
The Bolters who live upon plunder
The unshackled who terrorize
This continent a social laboratory
Gentrification of class
Our imperial expansion
Our obligation
We who leveraged the sins of the settler
We who transposed a moral economy
We who established colonial governance
We who benefited
Aussie Gold
Mate
Chums
Diggers
What if the convicts or ex-convicts found gold?
How to regain their submission
Their abject obedience
To retain a class of subordinates
All of their servile positions
How to regain control
Sycophantic compliance
Debased servitude
Proclamation of Crown Rights
Enforcement of British colonial rule
Establishment of a christian moral discourse
Through license hunts
Through brutal punishment
Through oppression
Generating prosperity
Through dispossession
Through enforcing loss of land
Through exclusion of citizenship
Possession - Royal Metals
Possession - Royal Mines
By virtue of Royal prerogative
In common law
Legislated
Free enterprise arrived in Melbourne
Seeking to establish a capitalist hegemony
Lining their pockets
Manipulating values
Convincing the poor of their worth
Building exponential GDP growth
Seeding the wedge of inequality
Fastening systematic colonization
When the Ghosts arrived
The haunting began
To sustain settler superiority
Then the ‘eerie’ silence
On Government-sponsored ethnic clearances
Gate-keepers of history
Denialism
Terrorem
Oligarchy
The Gold Rush Business Man
Mutual hostages have no claim
Wealth is only for the trusted
Leave each room empty
To fabricate dependency
And their disposition of inadequacy
Your prompts
Your punishment
Deny the many from your gain
It is their reward for being passive
Your reward is justified
You are active
Thrive, survive and succeed
In heaven
In grace
In silence
Know your demands
Exploit, speculate and expect
Build on their guilt
Grow their envy
They must know they are monitored
Disregard, destroy and countercondition
Colonial Enterprize
Goldfields and gold mining
Bringing in the order
Sectarian rivalry
Anglican supremacy
Autocracy
Convictism
Corruption
The establishment of
Locked-up lands
And
Ownership by a small minority
Deep questions
Deep human questions
The right to be stupid
Traveling in silence and adoration
Discovering innate and unconscious fear
Surrendering to the purposefulness of self
At loss
Let my death be a message
Rubbish and balderdash
The end keeps returning
Suddenly and unexpected
Our normal defensive response
Motivate
Crouch
Flex
Like-minded people
Reinforced viewpoints
Extreme opinions
Startled
Gorging on the comforts of technology
Admiring the terrifying beauty of surveillance
Each and every algorithm forming a nexus of intricate stories
Not no longer a passive electrical device
Armed with an intention to boost transmission
Their digital eyes
Their artificial intelligence
The enterprise grows
A booming market
Open closed off on open closed off on
Vision as a service
He rode a horse
He dropped his sword
He took off all his clothes
To be in poverty
In time for equity and rights
Original meanings
The primordial
Being of an exclusive attitude
Of one's own
Library of Might
When the Library opened in 1856 the British Empire was the dominant global power, with colonies and outposts all over the world
Ned Kelly's Library
Now in the State's custodianship
His letters, armor, and deathmask
A green silk sash
Ghostly intimidation
Across the road, Ned was hung
A life of situations beyond his control
There is no claim to objectivity
The impossibility of justice
We share a terrible history of global destruction
Our crown's propensity towards violence
Capital Imperialism
Driven by the right to reign
At heaven's command, Britain first
Extermination
Mass execution
Murder
Rape
Violence
Plunder
Suppression
Internment
Power is destiny
Glorification and institutionalization of historical benefits
Underlined by imperial knowledge banks
Written by those who are dedicated to logic and rationalization
Strategic justification
The order of might
This is what the colonizers know and do
Ned Shadows Melbourne
Subversion
Thousands of supporters
Rallies
Petition
But no reprieve
The lawless frontier was controlled
Make an example of
Through execution
And the keys to heaven
From an earlier time
Venerated and preserved
Heritage and martyrdom in decay
In the house of the proper
On display
The behaviors
The paradox of yesterday
Maintaining academic distance
A moment not like ours
The power held within
Social Design
Influence
Sanitized discordance
Prowl Vader Ned Algos
New Gods
Man Gods
Ancient Gods
What matters to you
Secret business
Rapid change
Towards complete and permanent cessation
Face of Turmoil
In this building
In this room
Collective memory
Personality trait psychoticism
Bringing together different ideas
Non-conformist solutions to address new problems
Ned Kelly and the State Library Dome
It was not that long ago
Between history, science, and fiction
This new form of me
Confined by experience
Confirmed by previous learning
Considerations of limits
Clarifications of terms
Conditions made similar
That what is embedded in us to continue forward
State Library Lyre Bird Cage
Our habits
Our routine
Our prison
Those who walk against the current
They see no cage
But when they are finally imprinted
Their otherness is capture
Their essence is put on display
Until they are finally and undeniably possessed
Ned Kelly State Dome Illuminated
The mutation arose spontaneously
Then everyone was placed under surveillance
Domes of knowledge
Architecture of power
Physical and spatial spaces of influence
A centralized mechanism
To watch over all subjects
Establishment of order
Surveillance for a moral purpose
From phase 1 to 3 to 4
From controlled and disciplined
To adaptive
From central to dispersed
From mandated to voluntary
The statue outside
The death mask inside
25 minutes is what it took
You are self-accused
Said Redmond to Ned
I will see you there
Said Ned to Redmond
Five Eye Bust and Bound Together
The magnificent conglomerate
The western anglosphere surging forward and onward
From a colonial advantage
To become the world’s largest economic bloc
Driven by a dysfunctional democracy
An overwhelming military superiority
Five eyes forcibly protects its economic interests
Forcibly protects its cultural capital
It owns the language of business and science
It instituted a moral justification
A self-sustaining network of legitimacy Underscored by enslavement,
racism, violence, and genocide
Perpetuating wartime structures
Through peacetime violence
Maintaining cultures of force
An everyday daily life experience
Simply acceptable
Postcolonial trauma
From royal decree to state legitimization
The removal of customary values
As basis for social order
Continuous socio-economic upheaval
To prioritize revenue gain
Enforced understanding
Of where each and every one stands
All for those at the top
Resources
Benefits
For those at the bottom
Lower health status
Political disarmament
Sometime later Saint Peter found key 6 in Melbourne
Impulsive and yet cowardly
Being both hot-tempered and tenderhearted
Insightful and yet ignorant
Courageous and solid after Pentecost
Yet was hypocritical
I didn't know
I simply forgot
And to refind requires divine inspiration
Forgotten
I forgot how to be prepared
And ignored the uncontrollable me
Once again we separate from one another
And before the night is over
As emotions subdue
I just slip away
Just to feel more at ease
I stumbled and freely fell
Down and in among the standard economy
With guilt as my gilded suppressant
Or was it fear
Or was it respect
I patiently waited in place
With everyone keeping an eye on each other
I waited until boarding was called
Learn
That is why you are here
It is not the easy option
Whenever you can find your place
In and between transience
In the ambiance of waiting
Find opportunities to make sense
I'm just waiting in place
Halfway between departure and arrival
A living cultural landscape
Paved and lined for the thousands
From generations to generations
More than myths and magic
No longer a featureless place
500 million years to today
The trepidation of being alone
When in the transition from place to place
Experiencing deep and vital dangers
Venturing into uncertain territory
Racing towards the chance
To experience heightened emotions
Of altruistic happiness
Sometimes I play dead
Then I am not afraid
Sheltered in your shadow
I put my hope in you
Too afraid to stand alone
I hide with the meek and quiet
We love the darkness thrown
Where in
Here inside
We safely tremble
This our place
Filtered from harsh light
Far beyond their righteous stone
Sense of transient place
Knowing you are almost home
It is all we have
This biosphere
My reasons for life
My sphere
My region of interaction
This is me as organic life
As atmospheric
In awareness
Red Cloud Passing
178 seconds to live
The time it takes to lose control.
Once inverted
Demand your certainty
In this world of loss
Thank god for peripheral vision
And our dreams and out-of-body experiences
Always in fear
Justified and bound in chain
As in splendor
Alone and just being
Just got to know
Trying to get away
Never knowing where I am going to
Never to know whether I have arrived
How to gain a higher purpose in life
Without reason
To actually dream
This is where I am at now
Wanting to sleep
And restless till morning
In our public places
In our shortened term
Together
In our repetitive behaviour
We created bonds
Forming reason
Being
A bond
To share our emotional identities
Our experiences
Our thoughts
Our feelings
Our memories
Wanting to be here
Caring and treating each other gently
By achieving more than just doing our job
In the sanctity of our biosphere
Of all living beings
of all relationships
Being at home feeling magnificent
Under the heading destroyed
Francis walked into the night
With a bleak outlook
Borderline and obsessive
And away from the street lights
A Darwin Bougainvillea Christmas
The night before December
In beauty and in pink
Darwin Mall 9:30 pm
It is why I chose this place
It is not the method or magic involved
It is the dream that is imposed
To orchestrate chaos into reason
Questioning why not
Of each livelihood built on inherited death
To continually find beauty
Through power and resource
Darwin Plastic Night
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