Narcissus In The Age Of Plastic

Beauty is skin deep

Layers of paint and plastic

Daubed with unsteady hands

Glance in the mirror

see the full bee-sting lips pout

and fake eye lashes

the tattooed eyebrows

filler in the crows-feet cracks

tell-tale nip and tuck

Nemesis smiles and

Avenges fading Echoes

Of a youth gone wild

When you are old...

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I’M FEELING KNACKED (based on a very bad translation of EINE FRÜHLINGSNACHT By JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE)

Im Zimmer drinnen ist’s so schwül;                           My Zimmer driving is so cool

Der Kranke liegt auf dem heißen Pfühl.                  The Krankies like it to a heaven’s fool

Im Fieber hat er die Nacht verbracht;                      My F...

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Monday Morning – 9AM

He calls the meeting to order

The alligator with the human skin briefcase

Teeth like buzz-saw blades

She raises the first objection

The girl with butterfly wings

Muddy puddles for eyes

The maggot takes the minutes

Slowly chewing the page

Drizzling ink-blood on paper

Smudging ideas

A firefly drifts aimlessly

From subject to subject

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