poetry | Nathan Curnow

YOU ARE HERE

                      YOU ARE HERE
claiming homeland
denying others
denying you ever claimed
           would fight
           kill
           in order
 to find yourself
safe inside these borders
                      HERE
where the new century sells
                      the old
where Nazis run
                      over and over
in popular documentaries
where paedophiles are released
                      to the papers
                      YOU ARE HERE
between threat and entertainment
                      so proudly over educated
                      you think
the threat is someone else

Overland 182–autumn 2006, p.58

© Nathan Curnow

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