watchful/
from a grey city bridge the camera
focuses on a string of fashion sales
declining now for the eighth quarter straight
through a row of candid poses older
models need these vital emendations
on legal terror charges pressing bolt
action rifles through their files to locate
eighty percent of adults surveyed feel
they’re sufficiently informed on key
issues half of them could scarcely point
out the reset button’s pivotal
role in urging residents to buy
locally where they’ll heartily endorse
a metapraxis on estate surveillance
***
milieus/
confronting these wide stance phenomena
in pure expressionistic twisted sets
high contrast lighting chiaroscuro vistas
rolled out against the lurid moving body
positions gymnasts twist their ordinary
convulsions overwhelming suppositions
configuring the weight of preference
for one or other limb provokes an irksome
effect on tensing muscles flex the shoulders
rotate vertebrae described in cases
of spinal vigour sharpens blurred but candid
footage of brutal crimes served up online
where tensions clash in edgy stylised
incongruous resemblances to facts
***
but i believe the real response is due
to how we’ve come to cope with capital
gains much in terms of class-based reticence
against defining structural compartments
dispose the poor to consubstantiate
contrasting cases out some sceptical
second eventual and aimless kind
of exercises furnishing the limits
cryptic discoveries of paramount
importance for interpreting encounters
intuitive implausibility
from the perspective of developing
race as conceived in biographic terms
not with biological intent
***
cohort/
somehow this diagnostic social set
to cope without the need for nothing more
ongoing down to that exaggerated
religious crisis brutally awakened
generation in a pit of private
glorification routed through old morbid
soundscapes sampled and unmasked as naked
astonishment provokes a gratifying
pastime for ardour-mediated hope
financial altercations aggravate
behavioural psychoses seize neurotic
breakdowns of the mind-numbed mute consumer
tailored to your ravenously groping
blindly self-oppressive sense of self
***
desensitise/
never knew what you’d come up with next
moment you don’t even know the names
of tearful stitches torn apart and worn
out considerations of a craft
definitions to debate the terms
stipulate procedurally driven
systems ensconced for breaking silhouettes
infer inflicted pain with no relation
to lived experience the aftermath
echoes through hollow rhetoric confers
substance to the counterarguments
compelling you to slave on to the point
a single minded classic catch-all phrase
benumbs our hopes in cold anxieties
***
closely/
you sure can handle almost any symptom
through dietary supplements and curbs
on export merchandise will quickly tarnish
reputations plummet through the floor
apartment boasts our fully furnished decked
out gorgeous inner demons purring curtly
how overcooked it gets like those tough leather
scraps they use to stitch up cheap imported
bags us a premium prepaid prime time
commercial tax imposed on middle class
gentility demands our open-air
gazebo brunch serves up the glum confession
your serial self-portrait suffers us
no intimacy and no deep rapport
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