SAVIOUR I
When he grows up he's gonna be a big man
Big like important
President of wide open space
Fill every room he is in
A waist too expansive for pants
Words too amazing for grace
Features too big for a face
Ego to wide for scale
Measurement is for other people
he will be a gateway to the future
Through which many will travel
Just to see him will be inspiring
People will hang him on their wall
Like they hung him from that tree
Bound hand and feet
They will love him
just you wait and see
He will be so big
so tall
so awesome
so heavy
that all this guilt will fall
we will be set free
when he grows up he will be a big man
Better kill him young
so we won't feel so
small
- © Peter Roads 2021
Since starting his performance career in a Sydney backyard Peter has performed for the Unlikely Project, Unspoken Words, Newtown Festival Mainstage and Shelter NSW. Since winning 'most promising poet' at the 2015 Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup he's published a series of independent chapbooks exploring issues of anxiety, politics, identity and religion. His last short film 'Flashback to the Pool' won laurels in 2020 and the next project 'Summon the Unbelievers' is a broadside against the hubris of blind faith.
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