Paul Buttigieg

Jump stones
Dodge bending fronds
Scented flower stems
Like magic wands
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Blacks can never love whites
Whites poisoned our hearts
And
Our children
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I sent a couple over Japan
Just to show them that I'm the man
Kim Jong Un with a nuclear plan
I'll kill all westerners just because I can
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I’m black
I have no issue with that
You’re white
I have no issue with that
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Must have been a massive struggle
For poor Betty and Old Joe
To raise children in numbers you couldn't count
Using all fingers and every toe
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Someone
Turns out the last light
A Blackout
And
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He told me about the war
Amongst themselves their own fellas
And the grog the jails the police
He did not want to talk about the women
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You did not get to meet Arnold,
My wonderful green tree frog,
Befriended him in Queensland I did,
When we shared a sodden log.
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Seventy two virgins waiting
For a dead man

Tragic
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I turned sixty today
Almost
Without permission
Whilst my love left so early
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Love be the food
Slip the breach of dissention
An idiot a fool to wonder
Of any other intention
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Can we start again Mr Cook?
Can we change the purpose of your visit?
From
Ownership of our land
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Riches do not enter my mind
Happiness is a thing of will
Love is take what you can get
And
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Fifty years and getting on,
Emotions in head and heart,
I’m closer to the end of my life,
Than I am to the start.
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Sad days
Nothing changes in the dust and heat
The winter cold
The dirty clothes on street side camps
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The heartaches are stronger again my girl
As that day nears
As I relive all my fears
Of
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Tomorrow will not be my care
For
I'll be gone
Go forward in haste without me friends
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They are all there
Every time I turn my head
I see my fears of paternal failure
I see my children crying
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I’ll see you on the other side
I’m sure
The side where none of the living
Have ever been before
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Did you not think I would get old one day
And worry

I might pass away
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