Accentuated ‘originality’ to shift protest
into ‘selfishness’, ‘opposition’ into removal.
I don’t get it, I really don’t, and insist
this is no ploy. Out of the streets to chase
tariffs, the irony being that the tariffed
penguins of Heard Island and McDonald
Islands are everyone’s whipping posts.
Yes, it got to this because of: oceanic
complacency, air-greed, morality jumping
around the dictionary, retrograding
human and animal rights, the desire
for energy storage, a hatred of forests;
oh, magnates and influencers. I have read
Sinclair Lewis for years, so there. And that’s
the spite of the nyah nyah nyah, the ‘told
you so’, and anger management when
challenged at border crossings because
so many of you/us still want to sample
the wares. Don’t we? And it’s the white-tailed
tropic birds of the Cocos (Keeling) islands
whose vulnerability I most sense: I’ve been on West
Island as a super-charged sun has followed
their tail-lights over the horizon, and know
(for sure) that commerce means nest failure.
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John Kinsella
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