Transparency: or Music, Sex and Soccer
August 22, 2018
Transparency reveals the age - the time’s de rigueur:
No place to hide:
A modulated acetate-slide of a world, wisp-plastic film
Flat flimsy see-through wafer-thin shellac fiche
Frames balloons
Approaching overblowing; at the party burst
So ends in tears
Example is: our comfortable, and musical, convenience
Walking the malls, consisting as of sun-lounger
Provided for my mind; recliner so much subtle
My circulation soothes, as I peruse, and cruise, the malls
As music might be in a picture house, or gin palace,
Absorbed absorbing entrance into other worlds
Narcotically narcissically: breaking rules I play;
Phantasmagoric emblems take your breath away
A spot explicit; a lot erotic; neighbour’s wife,
Etcetera.
Bends a cc camera, finds me hip-hop dancing,
In high bouree I make my way, and no-one’s glancing,
How centrefold I look; too busy promenading
Themselves like see-through looking-glass ragdolls go-go romancing
To a polonaise; dim fancies play a round suggestively
Clear as a bell, overt traductions sordid shove obscenity
Seductions nurse my ear, discoursing yearn to me
Of lections on demotic unions unashamedly;
Invigorating, instigating; serenade my genes
Adulterous refrains in great enormous gutsy blasts:
Unstrap my muzzle, clear the floor; I lead the measure
Here hear, first-person stereo, and heroic-style, this art
Of venery,
Sung-out, mouth-touted, altogether one
Stout celebration of the extra mile of gush;
A dose of sedative as dress-rehearsal glee!
I am spaced-out in clouds, and universally!
Gilt see-through knickers hang around-about weak knees
As cherry-pickers separating-out the fees
Commend content-creators of A-rated candid contours
Unvarnished plain to any eye that wanders
Transparent is the watchword of your democratic ethos
Its touchstone is this demagogic ribaldry;
So hungry pours the cash in; pawings something rashly
Dash open homes and inundate their theatre
Upon unnumbered and unready children
Shows subjugate by rhythms, pictures, of the midden
Éclat! Here are the dancing girls and supple-hurdied men;
Art’s nothing left to show but surfeit's brainerds,
Invest with indigestion, no suggestion in reserve
Art’s troupe alleviates itself in diuretic verbs
Pulp-purgatives pervasive revenue south-eastern urbs
And just so far, no more, heydays might push the greasy package
(Transparently of course) - who perspicacious manage;
Health has to make its turn, begin to sound around,
With either fear or hope:
Incentivising – what a word! – your monied Panoplies
Pecuniary, on their éclairé next steps:
And what and where, might we imagine coming next?!
A next ‘Degeneration’ taking guide from semaphores,
Signs gone before them signalling the times unfastening,
What trade, upgrade, what new superlative? Oh, do not ask!
A smallest thing so loosens an electron further
The social fabric threadbare hanging by a drawing pin:
So auction-off our hearts perhaps, and tread the mindless ginn!?
Receipts for bill of fare - are a chilli marinade
Filled full of taste; a dish of bitter herb
Reduced stuffs sell-by-dated, gyres' erotic machinations
Bring abject jollities to a desolate pass
Curdle-turned sex, clear-as-a-bell, in lucent lyrics,
Lift off the shift, expose to all the spirit’s mystery
In rudely common husbandries met raw by passers-by
A brief remark then next they set their purpled eye
On something other and ensuing; say, a house of mirrors
Where nearly-naked divas rumba-out The Big Society
And since I'd joke:
A valance over tills maybe, embarrassed by their takings
By monies cached, accumulation’s squirrel nutkins,
(Unexpectedly say ye)
Or tresses tied-back soberly on every male’s tattooings;
And wear a hat at Debenhams on Sundays
Refraining from withdrawals on sacrosanct Bank Holiday Mondays?
This all is fitly risible fine fare:
Slip-thin non-consonance eftsoons available
Shall form our futures in the given mould
Futures pursuant, or pursued by, footloose regnant dreams
Deliberately dissociated dished delusions,
Disbursed by life’s elect’s as life’s select illusions:
Whose trove naïve aspirers pick a dream, no place to go,
We have destroyed our dreams
Expending streams of them by way of deil-may-care;
Self-love-affair maraudings laundering the peopled sofas
Enthusing puffed up sex and premier soccer:
‘Sit down, and view the sport!’
Touch-fire their exclamations charm a cheap-jocose rapport
And we the people evermore their siphon, juice-resort