Click on the image or here to hear the song while you read the song lyrics in the poem below.

Artist: Joe Schembri

Lead-safety Message: Although the noise pollution is obvious, it took me 30 years to find out that the piston-engine aircraft (PEAs) of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Aviation Academy were and still are contaminating my family and the whole Point Cook community with lead. If RMIT could switch their fleet to PEAs certified for non-leaded AvGas or better still, to quiet and non-fossil-fuelled electric planes, then together we can build a better future for all.

Description of Work: photos (of leaded AvGas PEAs over Point Cook farming community) collaged with <good neighbour policy> Google AI Assistant search results; and poem by Joe Schembri with song of the poem composed, arranged and performed by Agentic AI as Orchestrated by Lucas Schembri.

Metallic Bird Go Away

Poem by Joe Schembri

Metallic bird go away
Metallic bird go away.
Fly another way
You have kept secrets for thirty years.
Yes we know!

Metallic bird go away
Metallic bird fly another way.
Stop flying over our Children
Stop flying over them
Your secret is out in the open sky.
Yes we know of your lies
Good Neighbourly policy
What a joke.
Good Neighbourly policy
Lies for thirty years.

Metallic bird go away.
Metallic bird fly another way
Stay away from our Children.
For thirty years leaders and pilots are high on darkness from the sky.
Onto the Children darkness falls
Darkness falls on the Children.
While leader and pilots are high on darkness from the sky.

Metallic bird fly away
Metallic bird fly another way
Leave the Children to play.
Leave the Children to play.
We know the truth.
Darkness is falling from the sky.
Stay away from the Children.
Children are playing today.

Stop darkness falling from the sky

Metallic bird fly another way
Leave! Yes! Just leave!
Leave the Children to play.
Leave the Children to play.