Published 26 January 200927 January 2009 · Main Posts white bred bun: an unaustralian poem Maxine Beneba Clarke oooooh check out that lifeguard he’s ripped hand me a vegemite sand stuck in my baby bonus ooooooh my baby bonus bits oi! mister / let’s breed gold haired & knock-kneed buttercup & coon cheese bandaid on a scratched knee judge me by a wet T call me love my god / i love this sunburnt cunt – calls me a slapper nother shrimp on the bar— be unaustralian i come from the land down under limp lettuce / tomato sauce burnt sausage & onion on a white bred bun i come from the land down under balangalow screams / do you speak my language well / f*ck off & go home hey sheila hitch hike your skirt up like a north shore school girl hey blackie yes you / beat it only kind we dig are rip curls oooooh check out that lifeguard he’s ripped hand me a vegemite sand stuck in my baby bonus ooooooh my baby bonus bits (c) Maxine Clarke 2008. Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 4 October 202418 October 2024 · Main Posts Announcing the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2024 longlist Editorial Team Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn
