Fuck Federation

by Graham Rowlands

Graham Rowlands

there
in white paint
by some strokes of genius
not sprayed onto the round
sandstone rollers around 1900.

Bullshit! But how can you prove it
with lead paint & brushes &
tonnes of pebble asteroids
bouncing to a standstill
in the sacred spaces
all over the
colonies &
you not even born yet?

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FEDERATION
FUCK, FUCK, FUCK FEDERATION
(like HO, HO, HO CHI MINH)---
the chant of Jimmie Governor's enemies
like the slave Nat Turner missing out on the Presidency
because of Chappaquiddick.

Jimmie's white wife
would have looked out of place
in a miniskirt
but
when you see
Jimmie pigeon-toed
in the throes of that knee-trembler
tangled in metres of gathered cotton bell or delta

it makes you wonder & worry about
revenge (as you giggle)
but unlike young Nat who only got the Holy Ghost
young Jimmie got the axe in too---
even if the placenta split
on all white child
bitch.

After all those women & children first
to wallpaper their walls with their own
blood off a black trigger

& now it's impossible to remember
the last time anyone miscegenated
or sexual intercoursed

it's FUCKing reassuring
to know FUCKing politics
still packs a FUCKing punch.





Last updated January 14, 2019