Alfreed Fandangle

24/07/2026

Loaded Mean Djinn

Loaded up the language,
packed a punctuation kit
to attract an attachment.
To attack a dispatch meant
to attest to desire. Now,
the original postulant you lent
your attention to attempts
to attune a parable into
some kind of congenial attire.

The average affirmed this
action, whereupon the proof
lies in celestial stress,
which afflicts aspects
with adverse effects,
and affine and dandy lines
that are trying to preserve
parallel parts of lives.

Got lost, looking for affix,
to these post-modern addictions.
The cause was an affray,
a disturbing public-display
of affairs current, and despairs
affectations of the apparent
“am-I-able to afford you”
in an affable way to convey
an aberrant night quest
for allegories of the affluent,
in freely flowing tributary streams,
wondering “what does it all mean?”

24/07/2026

Be Sharp

By the shade of the pale
fire that we snatched
from the sun, we read on
ineffectual hyper-texts
before knowing the real
reason. Now this intel-
lectual sniper flex
is teasing intricate
cross-references to
four seasons, cantos,
and barbershop quartets.
It was all patchouli,
the smell of madness,
and the “margins thick
with cartoon stick-
figures scribbled there
for the illiterate.”

(Quote from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury)

22/05/2026

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Education/Educationalattainment
The inquiry will consider the factors that drive variations in educational attainment including between and among boys and girls, from early learning, through school education, (including vocational education and training (VET) in schools), to tertiary education. It will seek to identify the factors driving differential engagement, participation, and outcomes at all levels and transitions from lower to senior secondary school; from school to tertiary education; and from education into the workforce and broader society.

The House Standing Committee on Education adopted an inquiry into the factors driving educational attainment on 1 April 2026, following a referral from the Minister for Education, the Hon Jason Clare MP. The Committee is seeking written submissions, providing recommendations in r

25/01/2026

The pen strokes thickened
until when the gaps appeared
to be what was written.

12/01/2026

Laconic lightning
lays pathways,
like arterial networks
to neural nebulae.
Iconic in this information
age, through a terminal
space projected
behind the screen stage.

Spectres sprawling in
a suburban stretch,
a virtual void virus
via us. Deep-etched
sectors selected,
sliced-up, and sentenced
to a series of
serious infections.

03/12/2025

Pierced

Made mad manifestos
and punctured flesh,
light waited with
bated-breath ...
until Bateman left.

Instigated
whisper campaigns
of something fishy
to bring you down;
humbled there,
holding the lapel.

Incarnations are
button-holed, pinned
like a butterfly
to display the effect
of its wings in
infinite iterations.

An alien iridescence
sings its own virtue
to make its way through
to write the future
rock decorations.

30/11/2025

Dawn Gone!

Don't think twice,
it ain’t no use.
It’s Al, right?
You're looking for green?
Forlorn, like lightning,
dancing to the breaks at dawn.

For me, no use
in leaving a light on,
I'll be gone
to the dark-side
of the lonesome street.
On the bright-side,
I’m on the road again.
I just can’t wait!

I was deemed more arty,
with a twinkle in my eye,
than my little darlin’.
I was losing sleep on the run.

Things didn't really
turn out as planned;
this life, full of demands,
sad songs, and not happy jams -
tune in and turn them on
until all your hope is gone.

No worries, ads hock
dreamworlds
that may never come.
Another day living
in Burroughs’ times
where Mugwumps walk the line
and children play in the sun.

Just there to help you
get Furthur down, the signs
had you believe you
had to make it all alone.

On the razor's edge,
I can hear the tick-tock,
but there is no time
in the present. Going off,
like a walking time-bomb,
forced to run too hot.

To handle it,
climb another rung
on the ladder;
make a deal
that’s so unfair.

As if I still care
to call out your name
in vain to the sky;
it took, “So long”,
to realise
you were already gone.