Poem: MUA vs NFF

May 6, 1998
Issue 

MUA vs NFF

The day the Australian government sacked its maritime workers and
replaced them with farmers was the same day it sacked all
of its poets and replaced them with sub-editors, its
footballers with swimmers, its jockeys
with tag-wrestlers (the horses
became senators). The mariners read
the law the horses wrote it said
PRIVATE PROPERTY IS THEFT
(and the scabs swam).
Hec Kavanagh

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