Published 9 December 200911 December 2009 · Main Posts Contemplation (a poem) Koraly Dimitriadis Contemplation of creamy moussaka, or fish and chips. Contemplation of another one child with a male womb. Contemplation of damned souls Orthodox, blessed in a church. Contemplation of Snoop Doggy Dog hum regulating. Contemplation, contemplation, contemplation of numbness dancing in darkness with strobes of lights and blindness. Contemplation of fifty scotches straight when it’s too late for a date and you really should have ate contemplation. Contemplation of her / of scissors to her long perfect strands or maybe her throat contemplation Contemplation of us touching contemplation of us fucking contemplation of a razor to my imperfect olive skin contemplation. © Koraly Dimitriadis Koraly Dimitriadis Koraly is a widely published Cypriot-Australian writer and performer. She is the author of the controversial Love and F**k Poems. Koraly received an Australia Council ArtStart grant. She presents on 3CR radio and has a residency at Brunswick Street Bookstore. Her 2013 La Mama show is Exonerating The Body. She is mentored by Christos Tsiolkas. More by Koraly Dimitriadis › 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 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.