Services Australia, do you think you are doing me a favour?!: A poem 

And now when I get out of my home 

in the small hours of morning, with 

my shopping bag, eager to avoid  

an allegiance to a society with so 

many hungry desperate faces! I just want  

to think about a time when there was more 

space between people and less convolutions  

arising out of degenerate expectations. I can’t even 

remember if Mars was too small for 

its millions. Or that any civilisation is always infiltrated 

by evil as it progresses! And that its denizens not only 

come to terms with the evil, but also enjoy its  

conveniences in a morbid smugness. I am just sick and tired of  

my eternal slavery for people who can’t 

tell any difference between right and wrong, 

astuteness and falsehoods, a piece of salvation and a 

peace brought on by the connivance of lewd powers! 

They all certainly cannot ably draw the distinction 

between convenience and conviction. I am tied to 

the peanuts of Services Australia with a heavy chain 

of penury and prison. And if I swear by my loyalty 

to my self-assertion and self-esteem, the arms of 

an illegitimately probate system swoop down on me 

as if I were a fugitive prey. I have never been modest when  

it came to calling out the impious perversions of 

politicians; just as they obviate a power to manipulate 

my miracle-working authentic genius. I can spite the hand that 

feeds me the peanuts for their mendacity and their desire to 

have me return their alleged (dis)favours with provident fruit.  

I don’t want to be force-fed with illusionist fodder.  

I shun every evil like I have always done for eternity! 

I am a wise righteous being compelled to the indignity of  

a vulnerable fool. I feel adamant to return my being  

compromised, with the force of all my adroitness! 
  

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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