Stop the b ___ s
Shiny, black-skinned, glistening, wet,
emerging from the ocean
and coming this way.
Killer whales? Predatory sharks?
Nup. Desperate asylum seekers
Tamils, Arabs, Africans.
No wonder Tony Abbot penetrates.
He's tapping into something primal.
Dark-skinned savagers from the deep,
Here to upset our applecart,
compete for our jobs,
come to consume us.
There's not even that many of them.
A couple of thousand or so at most
risk the packed-in boating perils.
If it's sheer numbers that worry,
why isn't Tullamarine being sloganised?
Stop the planes! From the air,
Visa overstayers abound. But
these bobbers-about in the sea,
we can't have that, can we.
A scuttled boatload of Kiwis or Swedes,
South Africans or Swiss would stun.
But blacks must be kept at bay.
Bill Wootton
11.7.12
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