a history of new zealand literature

abject
other i saw
think i saw
erratic seiziourous way
to behave
wrangling body bags
mannequins reenact
the us constitution
at waitangi bay
several historians discuss
the women who did so much
yet in modern-day is so useless
and reveals quite alot about them

dark sickness
bile throat
cyanide losange
quickness to eliminate
illuminate the treaty
histories written on wires
signed in te reos prophecy
its sweet delicious precision
makes the pacific pakeha
me
think i object the abject
made it uncanny but didn't find
out much about me

it a starving doll
clenched onto
culture existent
means milk in china
though botchalistic
is Kiwiana
resold to a specific entity
overseas
the settlers object
but some colonised project
I think the other is
oceans to breathe
I think I'm the perspective
that is eventually reached