Matureing avenges a beloved masses
Flashbloods of frantic roars
Are wearely revealing
Overturn every maimed tropical
Island and revolution is tortured
Smile the victory of huge futile questness
Smiled the wasted ammunitions
and pebble dead murky love's
Nature's tendenceys is one scientific time
Matureness of man needs to nest
Mature fully man is overestimating
Waging roving counter-revolutionary
are them blackfellas in capitulationist minds
Contradictions now is merely understood by us
A single sparke can bit you two half, and
a single bourgeois idealist can
fuck up a good campfire talk
They have the backward woods
They have the betrayed economic
fragil social buggered structure
Nature is on an ensured armed
countrysided roo snake animals
victoryness waring wageness
Nature will not babbling about
with political influences, only
with cultural nationwide balance aboriginal
To be Matured is to grow with Nature
Nature for some is invincible and convincible
Nature as an strategic success expaning
Nature is on our spirits higher than mechanistic ways
Nature is on the move, Nature is the revolution.
For the Greenye.
b. 1958, Wakka Wakka land, Queensland
A Yugambeh man, Lionel Fogarty was born at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, in the semi-tropical northern Australian state of Queensland. This was one of the Queensland ‘punishment’ reserves where individuals and their families who spoke out against the authorities were sent.
Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, particularly in southern Queensland, from the Land Rights movement to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services to black deaths in custody. He is also an Australian poet who has opened up the new space of black Australian surrealist writing and done much to reformulate our understanding of poetic discourse and its roles in both black and white communities.
Recently, his work as a legal and political activist and as a community leader has been focused on the reality of Aboriginal deaths in custody. The death of his brother, Daniel Yock, in the back of a police van, Brisbane, on November 7, 1993, indicated how little has been done since the federal and state government inquiries (and responses) into black deaths in custody to eliminate racial oppression.
His poetry expresses the need for innovation and urgency. In doing so, it is sometimes surreal, sometimes confronting and includes large amounts of Bandjalang dialect and vernacular.
http://redroomcompany.org/poet/lionel-fogarty
http://jacketmagazine.com/01/fogpoems.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Fogarty
http://www.austlit.com/a/fogarty/foga-iv.html
