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I drive the train I’m proud of that<\/span> <\/p>\n The train is long a metal snake<\/span> <\/p>\n The train runs smoothly clickety-clack<\/span> <\/p>\n Now past the Pentecostal Cross<\/span> <\/p>\n We broke the masses will as one<\/span> <\/p>\n Lost one leg in the Civil war<\/span> <\/p>\n The Corporation’s good to me<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n – Soldier Pete<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n _______________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Just a dig at Morrison’s big new idea<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Our Arts Department has vanished and is now part of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>The man is clearly insane. Country’s burning and this is what he fiddles with.<\/span><\/p>\n I needed a poem that extrapolated how bad things could get under Morrison and Dutton’s right-wing rule while still remaining something a future fascist government would approve of as prize-worthy.<\/span><\/p>\n Coal mining using up precious water<\/a>. <\/span>A Pentecostal State religion<\/span><\/span><\/a>. Fire-scorched flats<\/a><\/span>. Gina Rinehart<\/a> <\/span>having a stretch of railway track named after her. Soldiers firing on civilians<\/a><\/span>. A Civil War<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n All the ingredients for such a dystopic future are already in place. Our Police who have been militarised, favour black uniforms and sunglasses and are influenced by White Supremacists<\/span><\/a>, have just been issued AR-15s.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
A silver streak against the black<\/span>
Past empty towns, some levelled flat<\/span>
Levelled flat<\/span><\/p>\n
Filled with the water that we take<\/span>
To keep the coal mines running mate<\/span>
Running mate<\/span><\/p>\n
A chain gang waves, We don’t wave back<\/span>
They’ll work and die on Gina’s track<\/span>
Gina’s track<\/span><\/p>\n
That marks the many people lost<\/span>
A civil war’s uncivil cost<\/span>
Uncivil cost<\/span><\/p>\n
Thought not to hear a soldier’s gun<\/span>
See bayonets flashing in the sun<\/span>
In the sun<\/span><\/p>\n
One less than Stumpy by the door<\/span>
Least we don’t have to fight no more<\/span>
Fight no more<\/span><\/p>\n
A pension once I turn eighty<\/span>
Hard work, Religion, Blessed be<\/span>
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