KANGAROOS INSIDE THE CITY


The kangaroos are inside the city
Sheltering in shadows
A paddock of kangaroos

Standing around eating grass from pouches
Heads in the air looking at skyscrapers
The kangaroos are inside the city

Not waiting for the lights to change them
They move down the road
A mob of kangaroos

Marching to the beat of hip hop
Stopping traffic outside the market
The kangaroos are inside the city

Waving flags & placards
Chanting something we can't understand
A moratorium of kangaroos

Police block off the C.B.D.
People escape into the suburbs
The kangaroos are inside the city
A wild mob of kangaroos


*Poems 2001

Myron Lysenko
11:22.3.01