As I drift slowly out to sea on my cork boat,
My wooden heart creaks.
Singing the song of a million lost opportunities.
I dangle my dreary fingers in the water;
Bait for biting bream;
Nibble at the edges of my soul.
And cause me to cry out in apathetic pain,
The cry dies in my throat,
Choking me.

Glassy eyes scan glassy waters,
Waiting for the storm
It rumbles in my chest and
Spills forth from my mouth,
Frothing and foaming, feeding the masses
With bulk conscience and pre-packaged ideals.
The lies grate against my teeth,
Choking me.

I use my Toyota hybrid to run over starving children,
I drown my guilt in litres of precious water,
Stolen from the Murray they hold so dear.
Because it houses the Carp, the European Carp.
The scourge of fisherman three states across,
All bones and sand and grit,
Inedible, indigestible, just like the truth.
The irony is like a thorn in my side,
Laughter caught in my throat,
Choking me.

Immortals cackle in delight at our ridiculous state,
Stitching our patchwork quilt
together at fraying edges.
Smoothing over the rough patches, ignoring the holes.
I cringe at their laughter
And grind my aching teeth
Rest my weary bones,
Against a dying tree
Choked by progress,
Choking me.

Note: The "Murray" referred to here is the Murray River, which runs through three Australian states and is our main water supply in South Australia. As we experience severe drought the water levels are dropping to dangerously low levels, and we are in danger of it drying up.
The European Carp are an introduced species that infest our river. They are hated by all people because they are bottom feeders and they make our river murky by distrubing the river bed, they also eat everything, leaving no food for our native species, and they are inedible themselves. It is law that if you catch one, you must kill it.