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68 – Do you think one day they’ll find those bones? Will his skull wash up on Tassie’s sands? Can he be buried whole again? … Yeah, yeah, but from Darwin down to Melbourne, the learned doctors said: ‘Let the weak fall by the wayside, for the strong live off the dead. To stay alive is to survive against the bleakest odds. Embrace your Fate. Know your Place. Accept the Will of God. His cards were always marked, just like the thylacine’s: inevitable extinction’s written into defunct genes.’ Course, it’s a sad, sad end, this dead dead-end, but, when all is said and done, can’t stand in the way of Progress – Thank Christ they’re bleedin’ gawn. We gave them a good shake, but they just could not wake, the Dreamtime had crusted their eyes. So we left them for dead, and strode on ahead, and were blessed with this golden sunrise.
Our shadows are shortening behind us. Our dead are all dead and all gone. They couldn’t come with us, they couldn’t adapt, their bones lie bleached by the sun. It’s dawn in the Lucky Country and it’s time, it’s time to move on. Let the women and the crocs shed tears, these fellas had been just hanging on these last four thousand years. Long time dreamed of falling, Down through seaweed, silver shoal. Up above the light was fading, Waves tumbled, roiled and boiled. Night presses down so heavy. Down here’s just salty sea-bed. Empty sockets see nothing, nothing. I need eyes like I need holes in my head. Teeth shiver-shiver my jaw. No flesh le to pad them all in. e world has ripped up all its Laws, Le us dismembered, dismembered and bearing white grins. 69
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