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’
we over purchase
in today’s
world
clutter our lives
with heat seeking
wants
that measure
of our materialism
promising fulfilment
wrapped seductively in
immediacy
and comfort
while tip-shops
and landfill
gluttonize
our self esteem
with used productry
purpose built
First published in the Effective Living Centre Anthology,
Poets Corner, "From Our Desks"
edited by Jude Aquilina, Louise Nicholas
and Russ Talbot October 2020