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Vaughan Rapatahana
New Zealand

Tui 3 - Penny Howard
illogic

                        occupy?
                        occupy? 
I’ll give you occupy.

premise one:
  nothing was here ‘cept the birds and some trees. Kia ora!

premise two:
  some waka arrived from far distant seas. Kia ora!

conclusion:
  this land became our land without any fees. Kia ora!

            

                          occupy?
                          occupy?
we’ll give you occupy.

promise one:
we came here later with our potent big guns

promise two:
  we stayed here longer as we came in our tons

conclusion:
  this land ‘became’ our land   
SO
we are the ones
                     who say occupy

we’ll give you occupy
occupy!
occupy!

we’ll yell occupy
we’ll sell you occupy
we’ll tell you we occupy    

&
we’ll
shit
on you
        still.

                                [Oh yeah?]

[He manatu: mohio katoa te kupu o ahikāroa?]





your poetry ain’t mine

eschewing your ignorant spiel
I
cond
e
            s
              c
                 e                                  
                    n
                      d
to


defibrillate your
poetry
into analienother,
v a r o o o o o o m I n g
                     life-formngā mōteatea tika







Tuen Mun Foreign Language

a mad madrigal:

paper flowers curl in
the vestibule,
robotic marking
clockwork drills,
the thin ‘aircon’
susurrus:

staff
skinned
in opera masks;
the doomed dancers
swirl
in this
d e m e n t e d
dervish,

           over
spilled  ^  from
another
crumbling                                                        distant

panopticon,

Albion
oh so               
alien

to       
these  other
h r
     g        i
            i              s
          h               e

prisons
  

    tel
cas   lated

around
          O
our pedant
cells





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Maori who lives & works in Hong Kong, with a house in Te Araroa, East Coast, Aotearoa-New Zealand, married to lady from Philippines - where we also have a home. Living now over 14 years in various parts of Asia.

Published in variety of genre worldwide. Ph. D Existential Literary Criticism, University of Auckland. Poetry editor MAI Review Journal until end of 2011. Semi-finalist inaugural Proverse Prize in Literature, 2009. Two collections of poetry published end of 2011 - Home Away Elsewhere (Proverse Hong Kong) and china as kafka (Kilmog Press, Dunedin, Aotearoa).

Published very recently: English Language as Hydra [Multilingual Matters, U.K.]

http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Karon Beach [Good Samaritan Press, Thailand]

http://www.amazon.com/Karon+Beach