Poetry

The Yankee Ideal
Pin stripes and dollar signs
dynastic all american
gas guzzling dallas cowboys
fourth quarter desperation
Manic cannon
hail mary drive
incomplete pass dropped at the goal line
Oh this american ego
sith emperor of my minds dark side
trapped between the old Hollywood
sign and Helicon Spring
Chasing Cassiopeia's throne
Apollyon flying on Icarus's wings
My head is reeled with hollywood dreams
hooked as a kid, I became a Walt Disney fiend!
Vanity mirror shape shifting being
grooming silver screen self esteem
Cary's suave charm
Marxist Anarchy!
Woody's quick intellect wit
reflections of
Depp Brando and Dean
trying to stand apart
another extra blending in
with the scene
Type cast into playing the role of
your typical
impressionable teen
Self cast tragediennes
carrying on their inner
monologues
self important scene stealing soliloquies
captured by the ego
rolling film reel
Beautiful portraits below the surface
recognizable
faces swathed with unseen bandages
indulging in temptational sensationalism
Superiority seduction judgment anger and self pity
too afraid of the audience to open the curtains
and be completely vulnerable
Trying their damnedest to alter
minor mirror reflections at the altar of self stardom
meticulously grooming away their insecurities
strange humbling displays of vanity
Reciting scripted bed sheet rhetoric
performance perfected
pillow talk dialogue
Acting out for love and attention
kneeling and
groping
incessantly feeding the festering feeling
the crave the call
the cry the crawl
internal spotlight infestation!

Weaving
through
copied human frescoes
highly stylized
predatory hook up
artist design
Dressings shirts leggings pants and skirts
leather and fur
hair bed-teased tousled gel-spiked
Last year's disposable coastal
fashions amass in trendy
Midwest junk heaps
California Trendy tailored
woven by the genital commanding chief
worn in ceremonial
display by the naked general
standard clothing for every earthly star-fucker

Blood pumping billboard organs
Product rivalry loose garments
forever spun with lack of a true loom
poster decorated tee-shirts
heart beating slogans
tools of self promoting irony
life long
victims
of mastermind market tyranny

Mouths too busy for open
discussion
indulging face first in fist fulls
of delicious gross
Americanisms
fly-by-night decoy hobbies
so Easy to board when bored

Keeping everyone hovering in an
atmosphere of artificial bliss

Golden Shovels!
Gaudy holes!
Shallow Spangled Graves!
Now Dig!
Dig! Dig!