Published in Overland Issue 227 Winter 2017 · Uncategorized Syndromes and a century* Luke Beesley Don’t star/t anything. Keep your _and on a pencil the film will follow. Lift your arms. French for the snack of water from your reach into your bubbling brain. Here is a limb-tangent. Get on the level. Open your eyes – feeling. Corridor the open shoe lace. Clip chips that peal from your tennis indoors – those little squeaks. Upright pain. Panda/Pandora – no matter. We eat inside Jeff Koons’ bubble gum rare eclipse. It’s a sensitivity caused self protection. Don’t doubt it. Don’t begin. Film ¾ of the custard colonised door, no less. Cutlery tides, waterfall tricks. A lover buys her lover clothes. They never fit. Image: Corridor / Jenya Kushnir Read the rest of Overland 227 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Luke Beesley Luke Beesley is a Melbourne-based poet. His fourth poetry collection, Jam Sticky Vision, was published by Giramondo in 2015. More by Luke Beesley › 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 5 February 20255 February 2025 · Art A poetic argument for restitution: Isaac Julien at the MCA Sarah Schmidt Once Again... (Statues Never Die) invites viewers to engage deeply, rewarding those willing to invest time contemplating its layered narratives. Transformative in its complexity, seductive in its visual literacy, it offers a space for empathy, education, and debate, emphasising how museums can serve as platforms for confronting contested histories and inspiring social change. 4 February 20254 February 2025 · Indigenous Australia Teaching Palestine on stolen Indigenous lands Charlotte Mertens Refusal is not only possible, it generates different worlds. Refusal insists on the possibility of alternative anti-colonial futures and ways of being. Refusing the University’s erasure of Palestine involves a collective effort in thinking on how we will teach Palestine, the ongoing settler colonial violence and what this means for a place like Australia.
