Bird Strike

The plane goes down as the sun goes up

The daylight’s delayed because the sky turned black

A bird struck the engine and explodes into dust

the plane fell faster than the west gate bridge

The sound of screams were heard from the ground

The sound of sirens replaced the screams

Nose dived into the sand dunes,

Among the killing fields near botany bay

The rotted remains of Harvey Jones and Mark Johnston

were were ejected from the earth where they lay

People flocked - to see the wreck - What they saw made them

turn the colour of bad shit

The passenger plane once impressive and white

Was now a tangled mess of video tape

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Smouldering coals of the charred remains

Crackle and pop like a dusty LP

The stench of the smoke, petrol, blood and the shit

Mix with the smell of the ocean breeze

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When, 1 bird took down the other,

400 lives lost in the blink of an eye

What’s left looks like a Francis Bacon,

Paramedics don’t know where to start

The world kept spinning around and the waves keep crashing down

The birds kept flying high, The planes keep crashing down

As the sun went down another plane went up

What are the odds

As the sun went down another plane went up

What are the odds of twice in one day