City Stanzas -A Sequence

City Stanzas- A Sequence

Conscious Images

Walnut skinned in Sunbed City
Career consumerists all fake-tan
Celebrity locals famous for shopping
spending dosh as fast as they can.

Salaried sluggards all besuited
young professionals punch the clock,
drink the city's latest nightspots
designer beers and 'Aftershock'.

Malled Alive

Shopping malling texting calling
tracking mates at every move
on the street or in the bus
mobile phones are what they love.

Must look good folk , malling misfits
Sprawling shellsuit wearing yobs
Crank their creditcards to limits
vacant looking , open gobbed.

No Talent Necessary

Budding Britneys Beyonces Kylies
bulging bellies pierced tattooed.
Think they live the life of Riley,
lifestyles financed by the 'Broo.

Hanging loosely in MacDonalds
McFlurrys Big Macs lots of chips
Guzzlers gorging grease and salad
fragments fall from greasy lips.

Sadness Fills The Bars

Six pack loners poets of penury
Scribbled dispatches beermats bars
empty glasses fag-ends lighters
bloodshot eyes behold the stars.