Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Poetry Poetry | Flag mask Paul Magee The day I took my students to hear Question Time A Minister, Peter Dutton, said inhibited for inhabited but of course he’s not in relation to Operation Overarch and seventeen of the two hundred islands between Australia and PNG that might harbour agents of the COVID disease— that port that report. Obariginal. Parliamental privilege and keeping the them out of us. And I have always believed in protecting violence against protecting against violence against women, Mister Speaker, Mister Speaker! Paul Magee Paul Magee is author of Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Stone Postcard (John Leonard Press, 2014), Cube Root of Book (John Leonard Press, 2008) and From Here to Tierra Del Fuego (University of Illinois Press, 2000). He teaches poetry at the University of Canberra. More by Paul Magee › 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 8 March 20248 March 2024 · Poetry POETRY Gareth Morgan as if a poem were a person, me, i get up in the morning / i buy coffee in a can, and wait / you have to keep calm, “don't get upset” / or it fucks everything up. the bosses who tell me this / are wise but stupid troopers. this is a political poem 16 February 202419 February 2024 · Poetry Two poems from 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le But think about the children, super cute children, mute children, with uncommonly big eyes, children with hard eyes, eyes that have seen what no child’s eyes should see, children naked as the day wearing big smiles and no smiles, preternaturally wise, with mooned-out tummies and cleft palates and cataracts, deformities and birth defects ...
