Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Premiere Showing

The language on your lips is [art]ificial

Like plastic parts portraying humanity.

Never changing creatures of habit— (except when I’m not there)

A glorious act of artistic ability

To perform on a stage of lies and deceit.

But, like some plastic: clear, crystalline and cloudless

(A window to the truth)

I can see right through.

Neither regal, nor utopian— like those great costumes and maquillage provide

But bitter, bare, battered and blunderous.

An infallible, fake facet of yourselves.

A play for me to watch (without a ticket)

And, without respect.

Do you practice when I’m not there? (You must)

Just, let me see your naked portrait

Painted by your eternal audience

The gadgets residing inside (Uninterested)

Who see the certainty at night.

Please let me backstage—I will eventually see

But, maybe, I shouldn’t.

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