Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
MURRAY, LES - The Meaning of Existence, Poems the Size of Photographs
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A true poem is dreamed and danced as well as thought.
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MURRAY, LES – The Boys who Stole the Funeral
Inefficiency’s the strength of socialism
it burns up Earth’s resources slower –
“We won’t see full employment again;
we’ve priced it away to the underpaid
in the police states and the bare-arse countries.
Work’s emigrating now, out of our world –
“In that other Depression there was some kindness;
this one’s like fellows crossing a plain
under sniper fire. One here, one there
goes down with the boat and colour TV
and he’s ignored, or we’re told to kick him –
“Unemployment’s not allowed under socialism.
MURRAY, LES - The Boys who Stole the Funeral
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Australia was ruled by poetry for tens of thousands of years – prose only became its ruling principle after settlement in 1788.
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Religions are big slow poems, while most poems are short, fat religions.
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