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You’ve got to be authentic. You’ve got to write what’s in your DNA.
– Matthew Reilly*
sick planet sick me
boggling platitudinous beauty
dangling with dames in chains
gazing up through trickling sad leaves
to the peppermint sky
the apricot moon
alpine alpine exhilarity air ness hup
2, 3, 4
what antipode provides
a limit to posterity?
I cannot see
yet I believe
better than this stream this stream this stream
this stream this stream this stream
of vomit gushing from your charmèd mouth
I’ll clean it up
for a price I cannot pay
yet pay I will with an
introit
a queued
cue
to burn fat for every motif
that celebrates the birthmarks of nonentities
like me
heidegger wrote
only in art can the decisive confrontation
with the destitution of our age come about
he wrote it in
the question concerning
technology
my nest egg
my nest egg rotated
my nest egg upside down
this is stir crazy
this a long way
down
how a diagnosis
can save your life
conservative edgelords
on obligatory video
oh shit
it’s REALLY happening
the reality is
your elitist views
are a byproduct
of our system
now who
wrote that?
* Matthew Reilly in conversation with Patricia Karvelas on ABC RN Breakfast about 8.40am 24 October 2023