we deny
free-world corporate control
a population crisis
automation’s arrival
and our rampant consumerism
but
when a young
articulate
informed female
organizes her thoughts
and her generation
around a planetary crisis
         we cry foul and bay for blood

First published in Coral St Artspace in Victor Harbor,
in _this breath is not mine to keep
Opening Exhibition Oct 9 - Nov 21, 2020
‘another anomaly’