For my cousin

And so my naive cousin, what will you do
when all the bluster of your chosen party
simply doesn't restore your rights
and you find it's the fat cats, not the immigrants
who've taken them all away?

will you then say that, with jobs so scarce
that only men should work
and steal from me, from your wife
and from your daughters what you
now would take out of your neighbours' mouths?

It is after all the classic pattern
for those you are so blindly advocating,
Kitchen, children church their only female role,
is that really the world you really want created
for your own three girls?

And what of your brother
Immigrant himself, on the other side
of the world. Do you believe that he
should be kicked out to leave more room
for native Australians?

Wake up! why do you think the world has fought
to stop the fascists coming here?
Their tinny song of hate is no solution.
They have no answers for this world's
true crises if you pose real questions.

LMC 29 Nov 09