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TIPS FOR DESTRUCTION

The answer’s blowin’ in the wind -
and what’s the question -
how to gain world power,
how the military and corporations
silence the masses?
Give their children defects
that’ll keep them busy for a while.
Make sure the media distracts them -
give them reality TV
singing idols
that’ll fool them.
Feed them bullshit.

And make sure they never
find out the truth.
Don’t let them know
about the 2004 treaty between US and Australia.
Can you keep a secret
I don’t’ believe you can …

But if they do find out
you can always use the weapons
on them”.
Oh silly me, you do already
Beware the northerly wind my friend
it carries more than you know.

In Lancelin WA?
Sleepy fishing village of my youth
with its outdoor drive-in/cinema
and the best fishing close to Perth.
Who’d have thought - back then?

Shoalwater Bay, Queensland
There birds make up around half of
Australia’s species
and with the Great Barrier Reef
so close
imagine the damage you could do?
And how about the Northern Territory
don’t forget them.

Long-live uranium gas you say
yeah, about 4.5 billion years.
But don’t worry, you won’t be tried
for your crimes –
Senators made sure
you would be immune from that.
And Environmental Impact Studes?
No problems there -
no tests for you our friends.
With a 20 year agreement
You have free reign to decimate the land
infect/deform the people
and all with the blessing of the Australian
Government.

The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
And the question hangs over us
like a nuclear bomb.

(“Blowin’ in the Wind” a documentary film by David Bradbury)