Ode to the Melbourne Freedom Protests

To my brothers and sisters who marched alongside me that long, loud summer

What a field day for the heat 

Half a million in the street 

Half a million peeps equals one million feet 

In a city of five-mill, that’s no mean feat 

To the drumbeat with numb feet, marching in lockstep 

We do it for the love, double time is what the cops get  

Did you not expect this? Me neither 

Now we’re waving banners saying FUCK THE DEAR LEADER 

Big tech fact checks  

Media malpractice  

Government black lists 

Done create activists  

Lockdown rules don’t apply to the black fist 

But marching for freedom makes you a fascist  

Normies can’t hack this – cognitive dissonance  

Brainwash your kids – robbing their innocence 

Triple shot Pfizer, Spikevax for breakfast 

You’re not fully vaxed ‘til you’ve checked your whole checklist 

Present your papers to the public health inspectors 

You are not a person, you are just a vector 

You are not a person, there’s no ‘I’ in team 

Take one for the team and do the right thing 

The team of five million 

We’re all in this together  

To stay safe in the new normal 

We must BUILD BACK BETTER 

Half a million in the street 

Half a million hearts beat 

Many millions round the world 

All the boys and all the girls 

It won’t be on the nightly news 

And if it is they will confuse 

Clever angles they will use  

Facts and stats they pick and choose 

Drones on high for supremacy vie 

With the black helicopters in the sky 

Of ABC and Nine, and Channel 7 lies 

And still the revolution is not televised  

Telegram chats spawn weekly events 

Threads glow like radium heavy with feds 

Hippies and Christians high on dissent 

Singing ‘We are the mighty 99 percent!’ 

Teachers and nurses, kids of all levels 

Vietnam veterans with ribbons and medals 

Left right and centre, blue and white collars 

Bogans and hipsters, beach bums and okkas 

But we’re not the ones, they say 

Not the good dissenters 

We’re all just anti-vax untermensches  

Journos arrested by the VIC police Stasi 

Because questioning the government now makes you a Nazi 

Shout out to Topher, Rukshan, and Avi 

And fuck Daniel Andrews and the whole Labour party 

Melbourne Freedom Protest, 20 November 2021. Estimated numbers: 500,000