Seventeenth century
Black Australia
Imagine
Forty thousand years before
Island hoppers were White men
Seafarers in dugout canoes
New scenario
Why
Now
Cook is black
Banks is black
England is black
Europe is black
Americas are black
Skinned
Aborigines are white
And
Happy still
To be left alone
No understanding of colour
And no need to know the difference
Australis a new nation of blacks
From the Old World
The world is black
But whites run free outback
In this unforgiving place
White natives
With kangaroos
Emus
And strange things
From Gondwanaland
They must be rounded up
Chained
Shot
Starved
An evil
Blight on the new world
Driven out of traditional lands
A white minority
That would be un- Australian