A Warning
Like kangaroos,
Cane toads or rabbits,
You can be eradicated,
Annihilated
With the flick of a finger,
The jellyfish-pulse of a thought.
Don’t you forget —
This is my life.
Stuart Barnes (webpage) graduated from Monash University, Australia with a Bachelor of Arts (Literature, Philosophy). His unpublished memoir, A Cold Decade, was shortlisted for the Olvar Wood Fellowship Award. He’s editing his first book of poetry and writing his first novel.
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