yindyamarra

it took me so long to find a poem in wiradjuri - this is an excerpt from a longer poem from a film still on the website of an art gallery in albury
I can't even tell you who wrote this or why, which is INFURIATING and problematic
but I needed something to workshop writing melodies in language for children to sing

(starting tomorrow, I'm gonna post two a day to make up for my week off)

Dosage

My character is taking a new path today. Does the phallic imagery have anything to do with it? Hmm clumsy foreshadowing

    Dosage, dosage, dosage. Amongst the many, many foods of phallic shape, carrots are the mildest. It takes the consumption of one million, four hundred seventeen thousand, eight hundred and fifteen average sized carrots to overdose on Vitamin A. Four hundred eighty bananas for potassium poisoning is a far more reasonable proposition, but the salt in hotdogs is toxic after eighty one. Salt, meat, fat, in human skin. Bananas have human hair, carrots a human nose. Without us, they're seed pods and gnarly roots. But hotdogs - it takes human ingenuity to create such a stupid, passive killer.