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Bee Gone

from Bloodsport & Porn by Augie March

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‘Be gone’, the words that sent me out into the day,
as though I were an actor in a play,
a silent green midsummer of dismay,
where I did not see a bee, an Apis failed to fly,
espy did not my eye, no bee,
no anthophile today.

I wondered were they on a holiday?
And where do they all go when they’re away?
But then I thought perhaps the queen was dead
and all the workers fled,
the royal jelly bled, O dreadful, O!
No flower would be kissed upon its head,
no strawberry or bean roused from its bed,
and all of destiny is gathered in a garden
darkened by the sun who’s sulking up behind the shed.

Be good, be bad, be here, bee gone…

‘Be gone!’, is what the Mother’s really trying to say,
‘Get out of me and kindly crawl away…
you have a very parasitic way
of taking everything and rarely paying.

The worker bee has only just one sting,
but you are like the wasp you poison everything,
and it’s only in defence she has to choose
to fatally abuse the spider in the tree,
the clumsy lover’s knee
as blissfully she comes in clover’.

When all you want to do is get it over,
and leg it up the dirty money tree,
well it isn’t any great surprise no bee
has buzzed before my eyes or that
I should surmise that we should disappear
and be gone.

Be good, be bad, be here, bee gone…

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from Bloodsport & Porn, released December 15, 2021

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Over the last 25 years, few Australian bands have enjoyed a synergy of critical and commercial success like Augie March. Their songs are heard on almost every radio format in the country - with gold and platinum albums to their credit - yet they remain iconoclasts, perennial outsiders. ... more

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