No way forward – no way back / this impasse is a reason to forge an attack / - here to resist, no place like here to live / propane to an open flame, agitate states and eat the rich / - building a guild for the millions of militant citizens ready to / make all decisions, doing away with the ministers finally live for ourselves / - nothing is written – everything sells / nothing is equal when bigotry fiscally poisoned the well / into the fray we go, spreading the wealth, move at pace we / grow, raising the stakes, enabling change with capable words of hope / - you ready to go? - we aim for the throat / - so tell em we coming – anonymous on the approach /

Welcome – to the terror dome, slave to the throne / where unmarked graves paid for the pavement since the day of invasion / first nations – enslaved – slaughtered and stolen, treated as / fauna, frontier wars, amassing the trauma – that continues today / whole generations taken by force – for the good of the state / whitewashed apology minus the sovereignty honestly get no applause / enormous the colony – on a land that always was, always / will be indigenous, no legal fiction however insidious always be yours / - from when ships hit the shore – nothing but massacres, grabbing the land to the / packing of cells, infant mortality rampant and tragedy adds to the poor health / - life expectancy crushed, deaths in custody said that he can’t breathe / let them speak, don’t intervene if it aims to demean like NT / emergency, knee deep in blood and murk, down under, six feet / while the crown continues to run the country – like fuck the history / - something needs to change – no life has died in vain / no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain / Survive the empire - shots fired Lives of cultural pride - not silent Cross lines, black and white - united Destroy the empire - inspired Back to black, like an armband wound and strapped, to the bicep / - as an act of respect – unlike the lack of reparations hate and / devastation aimed at the dispossessed – we need to pay the rent / indebt to a constitution – lawful excuses written in jest / - racism, locally made, systemically e-rased, by the benefactors / benefitting from ignorance be-littling black rights for our better living / no recognition – intense – like the embassy in protest / heresy of the Christian missions, using religion to whip the hopeless / com-plicit – we watch from a distance, no real skin in the game / com-plicit – we offer opinions, not our place to complain / envisage – active transformation, fostering hope / share wisdom – centre the violence of history, murder they wrote / - anger and shame, run in the veins of the sunburnt plains now bleached / - find the rage, don’t hide away when you should find your feet / - something needs to change – no life has died in vain / no white ally stay silent – grow power from pain / Survive the empire - shots fired Lives of cultural pride - not silent Cross lines, black and white - united Destroy the empire - inspired

On the line – / living an intimidated witness in the vision of a / breath Mass design – / civil simple liberties are fickle are the images you / breath Do provide – / ripping at the intimate, stealing it is imminent for / breath All the eyes – all five, all the time / Data mine – tapped into – vats of / - mass of information, saved in the age of infestation / - ride the plague – sign up with dial up and / - watch the state, cause privacy is not yours to stay / - infect your space in the name of surveillance – like just in / case we get invaded you will be safe and we will prevail / - overestimate legislate and scrape data to regulate the / rest invest in checks in self-defence while we’re left no steps to help escape / I am with you everywhere that you go / I am friends with everyone that you know / I am holding your secrets they shouldn’t know, I am / you – following as a ghost / I am Ghost / I am Ghost / I am Ghost / I am You – following as a ghost / I am Market lives – off traces – trade places / - social haven manipulated, connect you with your neighbours / - buy the plague – no hiding advertising so / - be engaged, cause your self-worth is now pre-paid / - here is a trove of unsolicited data taken / just in case you hunger and savour being persuaded / - interrupt corrupt spaces paid and waived to automate, chore / away the traits bought in campaigning thus stating they are here to stay / - Pay the price – / media impeding on a freedom you are bleeding for a / breath Couple of likes – / greeting for a scenery that’s keeping your achievements in a / breath New device – / slip into the ether, agree even deeper to a / breath Digital life – online, all the time / I am with you everywhere that you go / I am friends with everyone that you know / I am holding your secrets they shouldn’t know, I am / you – following as a ghost / I am Ghost / I am Ghost / I am Ghost / I am You – following as a ghost / I am

Hi I’m a white man, and if you’ve already / tuned out, I don’t blame you – out of the / frying pan and into the fire, I catch alight as an / effigy to everything ever considered uninspired / but we’re here now, and what you hear now / the sound of bleeding out? Not quite but / astounding levels of proud men who meddle in any / channel of life has me asking the fuck why / - why – are men intent on being the best? / this competitive edge has us hedging our bets and / leaving us bereft of any sensitivity we’re / indebted heavily to the now so what’s left? / and what’s right? The alt-right? These / alt facts delivered in spite of the rightly oppressed I / am aggressed, not impressed, yes I am a part of it / patriarchal entitlement stamped upon my chest / - smash this text with every regret spent on / every tear wept and tipped into this system, for / every man confused by all demands abused just / stop being defensive by all that’s written and / listen... Man takes – whatever he / wants and propagates lies – trying to / colonise estate lines – the home, the / place built for him to indoctrinate, what a way to / facilitate violence – the cycle is / vicious and in his simmering silence, behind these / eyes are no limits, grimacing, figure with precision / that as one of these guys he can do what he likes / - woman – child – victims living in a / prison with indifference - rules defined, tools / are shined, sharpened, darkness a / stark reminder that he always has an axe grind / What does it take to be a man? Man fights – all minorities / like it’s not ok to be white, false dichotomy / stop – propping your feet on ideologies / claiming men don’t have any rights, honestly / online hypocrisy cross the divide into / terrorist plots for belligerent minds when men / feed misogyny a word to the wise they / radicalise boys and enable their pride / - hate – lives – realise this / purpose is immersed in blame, all the while, / afraid, denial, hurting, turning / shame into a dangerous weapon for mass demise / What does it take to be a man? Man is – a chauvinist a / homophobe prejudiced – sink below and / get a wiff – this is – not a joke this is / pestilence wrapped in a preventable antidote, as it / goes this is it – masculinity / charged within this flint – struck and lit in / structures where you live, no love, cause no equalities / decided by the size of your dick / - change – is – accountability / not being complicit, sitting on your hands and / living – in a privileged position, but taking a / stand – by refusing what it takes to be a man...

Who cares – when the mind is stripped bare – limited, by indifference / of fickle – social conditions like welfare, and access to health care / housing and education, hours spent slaving away for a wage underpaid like / who cares – when all that is left of your senses, worn and afraid / - this is mental health, time spent, distressed, anxious / and depressed – enemy / to the self, lost to the labour of wealth / resilience chained to a feeling that you are defective, dependent in bedlam and / at best – alone with self-harm, starved of affection / who cares – for survivors, in social stressful life crisis / when you can’t cope – and they said that your / heads not right – oppressed by increasing / threats – at the nexus – repetitive – stuck with an endless / suffering, right there, birth to death – still the question of who cares / I care, we care, your mind has every right to breathe / life like every night – endemic the / plight of a people, losing their mind / silence the guilt and regret, defending your head from the bleak that / seeps through economies built for elite – we do not see you as weak / Recovery – comes at a price Lost property – divisions of mind Economy – not fit to provide No stopping the – need to survive, freedom to / thrive No care – from fractured services purpose built to earn big from the / mental health risk you present with – delayed, dismayed, waitlist / for days – your mind is for sale, subsidised, privatised diagnosed / and let go with a dosage of hope roped / in to reliance compliance you now know / - this is the industry – blaming the victim for pains in the / system built on the sickness of millions – inept mis-steps to fix the effects / of trauma and disconnection, no attempt to redress the / detention of minds, agency lost, fatally crushed from the weight of bureaucracy (recovery) / no care – for survivors – living life on the worry lines / forever deprived of mental well-being increasingly medicalised / - for the term of our natural lives, find worth as a means to survive / find home in community not therapeutically using and bleeding you dry / - not all service is worthless – not all workers are fine / - this will attempt to empower people, politics of the mind / - from patient to therapist – to the health system world-wide / who cares – like who repairs you when access is denied / Recovery – comes at a price Lost property – divisions of mind Economy – not fit to provide No stopping the – need to survive, freedom to / thrive

Every day I see the same – feel the same Every day I see the same – feel the same, do the / same Every day I see the same – feel the same, do the / same – slow decay Every day I see the same – feel the same, do the / same – slow decay – each day is stuck on repeat / Witness the grief – grief of a people united by violence / - cycles of history – dried and encrusted in blood, tired / endeavours recycled and filed as noble colonial ventures – hopeless / - progress – slow as it gets, all for the commonwealth / - I am over this virus – entitled and whitewashed / spreading with every century, negligent enemies profit infected / - stopping at nothing – past and the present, tried and tested method / for the 1 percent, while the rest are left to fend from what-ever dregs are left / - again and again – giants of industry goose-step, with the / government – syphoning misery, stocking the pile, human as capital / done with a smile, vote for the business decisions of tyrants, silently robbing the / nation, defiled, tossed to the side – why should I be so complacent? / - when every day I see the same – feel the same, do the / same – slow decay – decades are stuck on re-peat / - I don’t know how to just be, sound of the streets, pounding of feet / crowding of hours where hours eroding like weeks / mental defeat – stressed and tether thoughts stretched back to a / past, hard to accept – lasting effect – like wearing a hole through my head / - so pull up a seat and sit with me, window of pain on history / - crashing through waves of agony, witness the captains of industry / Extend wealth, spreading like a virus We watch infection, defenceless like a pandemic Every day is perpetually recycled Politicians out for profit like come and get it Generational transmission like it’s worldwide For king and country, indebted like it’s pathogenic Customary like accept that it is fine Every day, grind away, so apathetic Into the fray Every day Grinding away Slow decay Into the fray Every day Grinding away Infect the state

Too large, locked in, system, grim Alienate and function, do time, no win Inside, tension, displaced, blend in Punish minds, trapped in this maze where fear resides (run) Grease the gears – induce fear in the public sphere / - scapegoat migrants, split communities with sanctioned violence / - state compliance is an ironclad way to deflect away from the / - poor underpaid welfare state stuck now in the maze (run) / - control the way the fable plays out, media made and / - incarcerate at a faster pace while crime rates decline vice / grip from a racist system too big to / fix while this narrative maximises / spending on gears of injustice that spin and this / vision is given to us so Orwellian / - and draconian – simmer over and showboat / a militant weapon for terror while / sentencing kids to detention that never ends / – they’ll be in this maze forever so / run Run the gauntlet, law and order From left to right, no justice here where fear resides In the maze, stuck for days From right to left, no way back no final stretch Run Run Run Run Tough on crime – increase punishment on the lives of / - marginalised – sitting smack bang on the poverty fault line / - economic assault on those who lack money till they cold and hungry / - and they demonised, penalised, trapped where fear resides (run) / - we’re socialised to believe its ok to be locked away for a / - debt unpaid, while we haemorrhage funds from correction centres, enter / at your own risk – it’s too big to / fix – while social spending is ripped from the / dishevelled dwellers who sit in the cells with indelible / helplessness yelling in pro-test / - for a home that’s – not so focused on / testing the poverty stricken for living a / life but instead they’re provided a sentence / - they’ll be in this maze forever so / run Run the gauntlet, law and order From left to right, no justice here where fear resides In the maze, stuck for days From right to left, no way back no final stretch Run Run Run Run

Hope – faded – stay – afloat / in a stained sea sprayed motorboat, monochrome / are the faces, pasted with anxiety / lights flicker quietly, dying to know / is this home? No way to stay / composed when the fate of their escape remains unknown / low and behold, out of focus an approach the / most painstaking test of patience ever known / - from the cradle to the grave, overthrown, a / grey vessel looms like a Hades, maybe this is / it – hope – faded – taken to the / cages, now stateless – please let them go / - from a place we’ll never know, once vacant live the / greyed out names and faces sworn to oath / wartorn, forlorn, stored offshore / forged into the stories rotting to our blackened core / barbarous bipartisan support – for a border / force – that traumatises, punishes asylum, and detains / human lives, faceless in a fortress that you / silence, ostracise, abandon on a floating Island / flagrantly denied, inhumane loss of rights, even / health professionals who speak are jeopardised, we / see – people die, capsized, and power exercised / you – authorise abuse and put it out of sight / Let them go Let them stay Let them go Please let them go From seeking refuge to locked in an asylum, this is / not what we do, we do not deny survival / From persecution to a pacific solution, this is / not who we are, we will not refuse them / From Vietnam to Syria and Iraq, they are / humans like us, we will not let them starve / From afar to far away from home, this is / not what we do, so please let them go / Let them go Let them stay Let them go We are / one – but we are many, and from / all the lands on earth we come, we / share a dream, and speak with one voice / I am, you are, we are...

Standing amidst the scarlet trees, hardly green, dearly / departed with an ashen-faced navel gaze – taste the / blackened leaves destruction at a rapid pace – the wall of / reddened devastation rages war with patience, now this / fuel weight is enormous forged on the horizon line / moving teeth grating as the fire grinds – wild / life – blinded – by the barbed wire / frightened crisis climate fights annihilating sirens I’m / inclined to pry the claws of tyrants syphoning iron ore to / place their Murdoch informed stronghold to better soughts more / importantly the burnt sienna pores under our footfall are / suffocating from industry smoke of which we’re all sworn / cause and effect, fortunate dead, feeding the force, cornered and / red instead with surety for the frontlines we pause / - caustic reminders, enveloped by nauseating / flames burnt behind the parasites who scurry capital lawn / no money funded by the suits and snakes, but by / masses of saddened faces broken by the pain / - ashy rain, uncontained, fire blades cutting / through billowing smoke so thick that you can almost taste / - the blood and dirt required to just satiate this / thunderous, savage wanderlust decimating acres of a / landscape right in front of us – the incineration / of an earth to create a land for none of us /

Pitch black, on the attack / - redact – kept hidden in a / sinister flicker of imminently unforgiving / infractions made fact by the searing of light / - hear the blow of the whistle / - break silence, disquiet, spot / light on atrocities dimly lit move / quick through the shadows as a matter of interest / - blocking the passage of rites / - dark night for the watchdogs / - pour light on the corners of / cabinet adamant they operating for the freedom of / press, keen to see how they treating the people like / Assange leaking evil foreseeable in the Middle East / even then, breaching the black is / perilous, you may never be coming back / evidence, trapped in a penalty / carefully unwrapped by journalists hearing murmurs their / purpose is to attract the light source likened to / flies, the political purpose is to react / - statutes, damage control / - cloak, dagger in hand, list of demands no / hint at when they will advance, pitch black like / molasses – just to smother their plans / Hear that? AFP See that? Plain to see Feel that? Fear is free so ignite / the dark as a matter of need Hear that? Sound of silence See that? Beacon of light and Feel that? Burning bright watch / out for the cloud of black smoke that rises No you’re right (know your right) Write to know (right to know) No you’re right (know your right) Write to know (right to know) (whispered: I know, you know, we know) Enter the void / - once in it, go get it, not / finished till we bear witness to the risks presented and / shared with the citizens before they diminish / - ready or not / - hide and seek, find and take files from the / privacy so we can see – give it back to the / people, let the anonymous speak / - chase greed before its erased / - conduct raids like its A-B-C, don’t / - shoot the messenger manoeuvring through the / burden of proof unearthing a kernel of truth from the / dirt permanently infused with every step of the / treacherous endeavour there’s a turn of the screw / - stoke the furnace, engulf the night, burn / bright like a flare cause we know you’ll write / - covert – pen full of might is / better than a militant weapon, yet nothing is / fair in this incredible fight, sights locked on controversial / purposes set it alight / - urgent, ready in earnest / - voice concerns that were heard through the flutter of / curtains with the power of words, uncover the / trouble in paradise for whatever it’s worth / Hear that? ASIO See that? Let it show Feel that? Afraid to know in / case the evidence is at the end of a rope Hear that? Sound of silence See that? Beacon of light and Feel that? Burning bright watch / out for the cloud of black smoke that rises No you’re right (know your right) Write to know (right to know) No you’re right (know your right) Write to know (right to know) (whispered: I know, you know, we know)

Stop for what / - high speed and you can’t hop off / - why believe in a bloodsoaked dream when / evil and greed is on ya block / - keep watch, agree and nod – keep feeding the meter obedience / is better seen by the men on top they / pretend what’s what and extend – that – net / fuck that, let us fend for us / - better yet in us we trust more / than these luck filled narcissists with a taste for blood, eat up! / - we do not chew the cud, we do not move the mud, we / do not take abuse, we do not do this for you, we do this for us / punch-drunk, get up, join us, faction, formation / nation not placated engaging creators to destruct / - face it – these fucking walls they will be crushed – workers / walk amongst the coals of a fire that is set to erupt and / - stop for what Stop for what / - genocide for a meagre crop? / - men abuse in stark white collars with a / hard white policy need a Molotov / - what what, take stock, make off, fake jobs, they made for the / profiteers, we commandeer this ship and rip the sails off / rob fate, take the nation, no / Cook invasion, don’t look away / - stare blank in the face of a crooked / claim, we fan the flames / cruel patience has taken ages to save us from harm so / waiting calm is dangerous time to raise the alarm / - armed – with a rage embalmed, vanguard that stands for / emancipation of a state free from exploitation from itchy palms / this book of ancient psalms – update as a call to arms so / join us, we must, destroy this place and make it ours and / - stop for what