Packing Up After Yet Another Coup!
The boxes are here … all four hundred
And seventy…. of them
One each …or the thousand
They blew tax free …on me and ma’dam
What shall I put in each one?
Now that my work here … is done
I will string together … the bleating hearts
Of those … that were party …to the bubonic
Excesses … by which we were induced
With forty eight grand a year … to stay and play
In this here … tropical paradise …like a buccaneer
Paid to administer … for promised cargo
From high seas … and digital cities
In this box here … lined with gold leaves
Here … I put the campus … by the sea
In that … box of silver glitter
There … I will place … the ocean in us
And in that box … lined with the finest tapa
Williams and Gosling … will cart the swimming pool
It is used …after all … and who wants to swim
Once a leech …has palmed belly and soul slowly
Ever so slowly … tile over tile over tile
In that carton … made up like a tea box
Is the blighted soul of academia … bound for Boston
Duty freed … for easier swallowing of official defense
Still paid for by you! See there it is in the contract!
Here in this box … for the valiant defenders
Let us place one VC… a Victoria Cross for Valor
For the heroine of admin
Stout and short … in her defense of the cartel of criminals
In that box … that one there … wrapped in silk sari
For those … who believed in their semi-professorial promotions
And kept their mouths shut … tight
For fear of corpulence in misplaced moment
Their beery arse ... might fart at the staff club
Ah! Alls well that ends well … for those who con well
There in that box…is my legacy … and parting bling
There are the Russian boxes…of putschs and piffle to savor
Each smaller than the last…like the booty left in the kitty
Try them for size …they all fit perfectly as promised
Get to the centre …it is soft like hot chocolate or turd
Can’t remember … which is which! Go Figure!
Bedazzled … as I am … with your prim farewells
Numbed as I was … with kava ceremonies of welcome
Here it finally lies … my contribution in box number sixty nine
Go suck on that soft core!! Vananavu Saraga! For I retreat to Costa Ra
And… when you remember me … say a prayer for Peter Foster!
ARCHIVES of May , 2007
- Cha “Encountering” Poetry Contest
- Writing Out of Asia
- ME’A KAI The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific
- WILFUL BLINDNESS - WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL
- ME TE OTURU: RADIANT LIKE THE FULL MOON - A REVIEW ESSAY OF FIONA KIDMAN’S MEMOIRS.
- Good news for readers of Indonesian literature in translation!
- UEA Fellowship for creative writers living in South Asia
- MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION VISITORS
- Writing Across Cultures’ papers & provocations available online
- Memoir/ Fiction/ Travel Writing masterclasses with Beth Yahp
- Yuanxiang (Otherland Literary Journal) No. 13, 2011 now out
- REVIEW: WATER WHISPERERS TANGAROA
- Review: The World According to Monsanto
- SHAPESHIFTING PASSAGES
- ICPC Statement on the Passing of Zhang Jianhong
- REVIEW:TALANOA, TAFAKATATA, TAFAKALANU: TONGAN STORIES FROM THE PACIFIC
- REVIEW: ROUTES AND ROOTS: NAVIGATING CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LITERATURES
- REVIEW: MY UROHS
- Review: FOOD FROM NORTHERN LAOS – THE BOAT LANDING COOKBOOK
- REVIEW: BETRAYAL, TRUST AND FORGIVENESS – A GUIDE TO EMOTIONAL HEALING AND SELF-RENEWAL
- ASM TO LAUNCH 13 NEW BOOKS ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 18
- Collected Works Bookshop, Melbourne
- National Novel Writing Month
- PEN All-India Statement on Rohinton Mistry Ban
- 独立中文笔会关于刘晓波荣!
- Dr. Liu Xiaobo, is awarded to the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010
- Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change - Oceans, Islands and Seas
- Kia Ora Book and DVD review
- 世界各地笔会等49团体就北京&#
- A Joint Statement on the Trial of Dr Liu Xiaobo
- *CALL FOR SHORT STORIES*
- Review: THE TROWENNA SEA
- WRITING ACROSS CULTURES
- Atlas of Unknowns, by Tania James
- GuideGecko Writing Contest
- `A LOVE FOR LIFE - SILENCE & HIV’
- SRI LANKA: Tamil journalist sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
- Peril’s Call for Submissions - Issue 8
- PEN International Magazine seeking contributions
- Asia Literary Review is calling for submissions
- Perfectly Frank
- Asia Literary Review
- Iran news in brief. July 22
- Sydney PEN condemns censorship attempt; congratulates Melbourne Film Festival
- Review: EARTH WHISPERERS PAPATUANUKU: AN EMPOWERING BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE.
- Asia Literary Review now has an online presence
- Iran movement news of the past three days in brief
- COMMEMORATING HABIB TANVIR
- Protest of the Light
- New book of poetry: Eigth Habitation
- New Book: Look Who’s Morphing
- On Human Rights and Media Freedom in Sri Lanka
- Review: The Wild Green Yonder
- Seventh issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal has now been launched
- THE ASIALINK ESSAYS SERIES
- 今年 六 四之夜 请点亮一支蜡&
- 4TH June 2009, is the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square Pro-Democratic Movement,
- Anatomizing the colonised mind
- SILVERFISH NEW BOOKS: Malay Politics
- Jealousy is my middle name
- On the Quiet Water
- Giramondo books shortlisted for Literary awards
- 2009 Indonesian Arts and Culture Scholarship Program
- 刘霞:呼吁释放我的丈夫刘
- Release Dr. Liu Xiaobo
- Talk and Reading By RANDHIR KHARE
- Launch Beyond the Beaten Track: Offbeat Poems from Gujarat
- The Expat’s Partner: An Email
- The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership Relocates to the University of Adelaide
- The sixth issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal has now been launched
- Almost Island
- Sherna Khambatta Literary Agency
- Update: Centre for Literary Arts and Publishing
- Literatures in Other Languages
- Special Cha Edition: Contents
- Reflections on an Online Journal
- Zelkova Tree
- On Giving Birth to Your Daughter
- Ellipsing, Elapsing
- Whose Woods These Are
- The Mourning Months
- Smashing up the Grand Piano
- Spectral Questions of the Body
- At Hac Sa Beach, Macau
- Bad English
- Flowers are as permanent as Brick
- A Veteran Talking
- A Water Planet
- To John Lyman and the Portrait of his Father
- There’s Always Things to Come back to the Kitchen for
- The Ghost in the Mirror
- Bet
- Betrayal
- The Killing
- Pusat
- 国际笔会三百多作家联署呼
- World authors call on Chinese authorities to release dissident writer
- Mascara Poetry Call for Submissions
- Mascara Poetry
- Reproducing Nature