they’re genociding the homeless
snapfreezing them into iceblocks during the night
screwing us all so they can buy
one more yacht and investment property
another poor little child is born in the ghetto
and the media sells the next Iran war
to employ imperial cannon fodder
so its ruling monster class can buy
more yachts and investment properties
with defence share profits
Trump’s ghoulish puffy face gloats at tax cuts
for his mates so they can buy
even more yachts and investment properties
we share beers and Fresita
take photos of the storm
talk of guillotines
refugees
the filthy rich
and the bourgeoisie
who let them get away with it
so they too might be able to buy
a yacht and an investment property in twenty years
i snarl curses and invoke a release
from the thrice times three rule
for these craven acts of sympathetic magic
an upload to virtual reality is looking better and better
watching the exhumation of 80s hits on Countdown Live from Sydney
remembering when anything was possible
before Gordon Gekko convinced everyone
greed was good and me, me, me the answer,
they don’t care, don’t care, don’t care,
let them all freeze, freeze, freeze.
Wine
drink wine
drink fine French champagne
because latte sipping isn’t good enough
and it hurts to be a struggling rhinemaiden
with a developing fan club of bourgeois racists
in a gasping country where blackness is ignored
and because these people are boozing at a cocktail party in frocks
and swilling wine
BUY BITCOIN
Buy bitcoin because your parents only had gold
and shares
and because you’re the hostess with the mostest
and because the suffering of refugees
is distant
BUY POETRY!
Parading round the racist spoils,
white settler man groomed
to ignore bantustans,
compassion erased by genocide,
each word sung an arrow of malice
shot by the oppressor into
the hearts of the oppressed,
here is a cave wherein
light does not reach.
November 2017
Shallow Cave decides to play apartheid because he doesn’t like lists, and it’s all about him and his feelings of being silenced and bullied, never mind the cries of oppressed Palestinian people for justice and rights and several generations of colonial bullying by their zionist oppressors. With bitter irony, Cave will now be added by the Israeli hasbara machine to its list of artists which it uses as ammunition to continue its brutalisation and deprivation of Palestinians.
In his press conference statement, Cave complained about feeling cowardly for not playing Israel sooner, yet it is truly the coward’s path to side with power against those who are being crushed by it. Cave exposes his own white settler ideological origins.
“It’s no secret that Israel systematically uses performances by artists to normalise its racist, discriminatory system that oppresses me, my loved ones and every Palestinian.” Palestinian musician Rima Nasir calls on Nick Cave to support the boycott of apartheid Israel, or he’ll be used as a stick by the Israeli regime to beat the oppressed.
Dear @nickcave Are you seeing the refugee camps? The apartheid wall? The illegal colonies stealing land? Can you see besieged Gaza? Why won’t you hear #Palestinians? https://twitter.com/DPAI1/status/931869972854341632
Is @nickcave taking a guided tour with a key ‘Brand Israel’ tourism agency, with a guide who just happens to have been a paratrooper on “the front lines” of major military assaults? https://twitter.com/BFW_IL/status/931853247299678208
“Your claim that somehow we have the ability, or the will to silence you is fallacious, and it rings careless in the face of the fact that Palestinian culture and heritage, along with its people, has been undergoing Israel’s erasure for the past seven decades. So successful was this erasure, that you neglected to mention Palestinians in your own statement, as if they aren’t the reason you felt you had to make the statement in the first place. As if they don’t exist.”
In response, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (a founding organization in the BDS Movement) has released a new statement. “Nick Cave’s performances in Tel Aviv and recent statement are a propaganda gift to Israeli apartheid,” they write. “We thank Nick Cave for making one thing abundantly clear—playing Tel Aviv is never simply about music. It is a political and moral decision to stand with the oppressor against the oppressed.” The independent initiative Artists for Palestine UK also issued a statement to Pitchfork, saying, “Artists for Palestine UK thinks it is Palestinians who are daily humiliated and silenced. It regrets that in a land of injustice, Nick Cave is giving comfort to the unjust.”
