Samuel Wagan Watson
No Entry Anytime
No Viet Cong ever called me nigger!
—Anti-Vietnam War protest slogan
Restraining orders come natural to me . . . this isn’t my country unless a federal court deems it so. I’m not welcome here and I’m not welcome there, and once or twice a potential mother-in-law has not wanted black babies to soil the name of her untarnished heritage. No Trespassing . . . no right, no wrong, no service, no justice, no law, and only new world order . . . non-transferable tickets, NO ENTRY ANYTIME! But in a beautiful hindsight, no refugee has ever called me NIGGER! Words reserved for chairs that are reserved seating only. My Elders removed from their country by brutal force and whoever survived were placed in a concentration of cultures on reserves . . . I’m a refugee in my own country but no refugee has ever called me NIGGER! Anti-terror lawmakers want citizens to be vigilant sheep . . . robotic, drone warfare, protecting borders that are only physical while the psychological war has been waged for over 200 years. Royal commissions into Deaths in Custody that shouldn’t have had borders, but a guilty cop purging himself truthfully is a good outcome because he has indemnity . . . poor fellow. We can’t invade his privacy, his nightmare is constrained to his victim’s ghost, a refugee in this landscape of card-carrying victims’ ghosts . . . we are all ghosted by killers, card-carrying uniforms, ACCESS ALL AREAS. This country is a game reserve, ‘open season’ anytime for some and no protection for those who ask for protection . . . Restraining orders come natural to me, whilst no refugee has ever called me NIGGER . . . .
Welcome to Australia . . . WRONG WAY GO BACK . . . NO ENTRY ANYTIME.