Ulladulla Cut 2019

We only want to be provided clues 

No longer do we want our problems answered

From now on - dismantle and search

Under this contractual biosphere 

Knowing all of the hyped-up falsities

The everyday inference

My overvalued ideas 

Our failed continuum 

It was always out of reach

Barriers no matter how small 

Barrier no matter how thin

Have held me in sway

Cutthroat capitalism

Empires and colonies

Subjected new frontiers

Past crimes held beyond reproach

My car is making me fat

I no longer walk

These streets are devoid of humans

Nobody is noticing that everything is wrong

Until a barbarian walks by

Then cries of horror are heard

We come to catch a glimpse of the primitive

The pre-capitalist primitive 

The pre-Christian primitive

With the convenience of coffee and shops

Not quite the real thing

Commodification

Taking photos

Buying artifacts

The Ulladulla Gatekeeper

In tribute to Russell Drysdale

In the greatness of the Gatekeeper's Wife

The opposing force

Of our voice

Of the audience 

Retelling and redistributing

Not one but many thousand

Can you hear my echo

Botany Bay Social Primitive

Standing within a political junction

In the footsteps of mass transportation

For the public good

And the complicated machinery of engineering a coexisting place

Racist stereotypes used to justify colonial conquest

To establish our  newfound enlightenment

As a legitimate entity 

As settlers obscuring the travesty of invasion

The British went on and imposed

Their penal settlements

Through conflict and violence

The natives were systematically killed

Declarations were made

Martial law was established

The kingdom's territories became larger

The kingdom became more powerful

Leaving us with symbols of grace

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