Terminal Stretch


from the ABC set Camera Obscura

Nursery crime rates pay
for the high-rise temples,
unserviced lifts to vain gods;
a piss-pool sample in
consistency of Planner's
incontinence.

Those who box clever
seek solace and safety
behind curtain-walled
cul-de-sac cloisters.

Now socially constructed
communities, disrupted,
but for the grid-dip
when shiny kettles click
camaraderie, at Soap's end.

Reality, never real
shares consciousness,
wraps tomorrow's chips
on the multilevel floors of
blank solitary cells.

2004

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minor edit 17.01.11

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