Author Archives: montecyril

I can imagine a present when we are all  bartending our way to disillusion  Did I hear Anthony Albanese say  ‘We must all be united’ on Australia Day!  Like he had no furtive stand; and we believe  in hipswayers. Ask the Jew or the Muslim?  Because the Liberals (Coalition) are rivalling the deadwood   on the Murray! So let LaborContinue reading “Your evil Dada and my beautiful Dad: A poem “

I have always been skating on thin ice  Somehow, always finding the rectitude  not to have my soul fall into the freezing void  This eternal tapdance that we all have partaken  is not my doing; I have never been a partner  to crime, though the gunshots, you keep hearing, are mine!    I am not the opposite end of sunshine  And I have love, and lose it toContinue reading “Must I always be skating on thin ice for you all?: A poem “

Look at me! I’ve never been to Western Europe!  It’s large mighty open palaces, castles and fortresses   And what about the churches whose curvatures are   marked by the brilliance of bygone architects  And whose intricacies can’t even have the summer heat  take off their picture-perfect beauty. Or the laughing snow    making their shoulders blush with slight convalescence  But not as south as Rome or Venice! I thought about Santiago  DeContinue reading “I’ve never been to Western Europe: A poem “

Can you pickle a fish?  when it keeps tickling every switch?  Should I consign it to every ditch,  before it spills out its pitch?  Sussan Ley, what makes your day?  Do you prefer Pisces to May?  I couldn’t even have Scorpio or Aries,  Guess, which evil creep read my secret diaries?  Albanese likes to have it easy,  One evil replaces another; Gosh How queasy?!  I can haveContinue reading “Fuck your National Cabinet!: A poem “

I am not just the vapor of myself  but a substantiation  The ether in me, has matter  not out of its preference  but because of its duty  And you have known it since the beginning, Jashmina  because I entitled you as my Goddess  in this everlasting flow  And you have been a python that crushesContinue reading “Thank you, Jashmina, for colluding with the treachery against me, at all times: A poem “

I think I should go far into the spaces of my loneliness,  if there is any space left there at all!  I have the flotsam and jetsam of an ever-growing ocean  encumbering my sense of astuteness and discernment,  so, it endeavours to take away my right to my integrity and dignity.  If I should tell you all that you have all felled my forestation Continue reading “I think I should go far into my loneliness: A poem “

Hey Ilhan Omar, do you feel self-respect in wearing the burkha or hijab?  And does your minority community, not deserve an invective-filled barb?  What about the minority communities in your community’s moon-kissed lands?  If they dare your Mohammad or Allah and face blaspheme laws on their hands?  Don’t you dare go shouting your fake rights in the length and breadth of America!  DoContinue reading “Hey Ilhan Omar, you are certainly not from Mars!: A poem “

Finding life, amid the patterns  of oyster-bedrooms and invisible pearls  in closets that you seldom use  but hide yourself; not because you are not brave  but because everyone else seems to overestimate your enemies!  All your friends you lost, when they stopped calling your name  or thought you were misdirected, when they, themselves, were to blame  And you never thought you were shame,Continue reading “Finding life; in holograms that only a few can touch : A poem “

I never even shed a tear  or broke myself in shards of fear  For, as a child, I lived as a child with every passing year  That what I love, should be kept so far from me, and yet, feel so near!  They think they can take all my eternity and wrap it in a moon’s silver coil!  Or make it a skin ofContinue reading “I never shed a tear, nor did I fear!: A poem “