just last year
another young black man was disappeared

you forget his name
did you know it

roughed up by cops in flemington
his body surfaced
crushed and bruised
on the yarra - or perhaps it was
the maribyrnong - banks
nobody could really say
what happened

sweet jesus:
he was disappeared

another black man

remember liep gony
stabbed to death while riding home:
a kid coming back
from his fast food job
on just another ordinary
black boy day

liep gony lived several suburbs from me
liep gony / was my kid too

in the news some short while
but nobody remembers him now
he was more than just a dead boy
but he was just a dead boy brown

the immigration minister
of the day / he said
'these sudanese
have a real problem
with integration'

a black kid did not come home that day
and that was his eulogy offering

back in june / back in june
a taxi driver / was attacked
driving a handful of somebodies safely
– or so he thought –
home from the melbourne night

go back to where you came from they said
he was an indian man
they were white boys
they had baseball bats
theirs were no uncertain terms

yet another good-bloke copper
chasing yet another koori kid
to yet another death
yet another good-bloke copper
chasing yet another koori kid
to yet another death
and yet another good-bloke copper
chasing yet another koori kid

disappeared

it happened

yeah / it happened
yet again