This is an erasure poem that I put together from today's front page of The Guardian Australia - a newsverse, if you like. I took phrases randomly from across the page to make the poem, and added the odd linking phrase or expository word here and there.
this day:
super heat
a crime scene of unspeakable horror
a girl dies (again).
the death of neoliberalism
minimum wage is a
war on business
distress signal confirmed
the search goes on
a boy left in a forest
nude elderly women
giant alligator panics
the world spins, stranger, sharper:
allegories about xenophobia fill the darknet
demagogues under investigation
what is the measure of a man
evolving
ecstasy in the desperate hunt
it's an international scandal
we need more time
we have no more time:
vanished without trace
invisible women
dreamtime and dust
reduced to tagged animals
dance. dance.
then die.
- Kathy, 31/05/16
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