I don’t know why. Especially you, Mr Male, With your elegant dress, And your black and white tail. I have seen you beat your mate And make her squark as you berate, Striding, running over my lawn, Chattering in the early dawn, As if you own that too. On Second thoughts, as far as birds go And what do they know, You believe in land rights too! He wrote another poem about his experience of making his own bow and arrow and killing a robin redbreast which he felt great remorse for. List of works Plays Kullark (1972) The Dreamers (1982) No Sugar (1985) Honeyspot (1985) Moorli and the Leprechaun (1986) Burungin (1988) Plays from Black Australia (1989) In Our Town (1990) Poetry The First-born and other poems (1970) The Black Tracker (1970) Jagardoo : Poems from Aboriginal Australia (1978) John Pat and Other Poems (1988) Publisher Dent Australia Black Life : poems (1992) Wurru : poem from Aboriginal Other works Jack Davis : A life-story (1988) A Boy's Life (1991) Paperbark : A Collection of Black Australian Writings (1992) References External links Jack Davis in AusStage 1917 births 2000 deaths Australian memoirists Indigenous Australian writers Noongar people Australian indigenous rights activists Members of the Stolen Generations People from Yarloop, Western Australia 20th-century Australian poets Australian male poets 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights Noongar culture Australian male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Australian male writers Members of the Order of Australia 20th-century memoirists