Tuesday 25 June 2013

The Smile Sink


I'm a clinical psychologist, 
Specialising in narcissism within hyperspace, 
Where it's all about the first-person narrative: 
Where the photographer is the sitter; 
Where the smirking cat points at their litter.. 

                      and, Flash! 
Gong! 
The preemptive future-proof memory cache:
The show and tell.
But am I here,  
Where my asymmetric self-portraits hatch? 

Is the view only real through the unsleeping lens? 
Is anxiousness the motor of this super-saturated-self? 
Is our interior long and gone chained inside the always-on Panopticon? 

                   The contra-flow confluence - 
Everyone a million points of light. 
Most walk the glass-click-down in stop-gap time, 
Dappled in the shimmering gloom, skin-tight. 
Flex with the nearest vat of wine. 
Yeah, see, I'm looking fine.. 

You could delete that one, though, 
And..that one. 
I'll delete one too if you.. 

Remind me: how the hell am I again? 
How old am I? 
I wonder: how old should I be - here? 

The performer steals themselves for the cage. 
Tag the sage. 
Disconnect to share and engage - 
It's the only way. 
Watch the you-and-them. 
Everyone with earphones on. 
And all the eyes peel down the sounds leaking silence. 

            eat say day date data dated rate 
                     careful addictive sizzle 
                frazzled  

The Smile Sink - 
Don't blink. 
There's a lot to study in the meta of me-think. 
In the liminal smog pools the dawn patrols subject their objects - 
Take the tamarind hit from the gloaming ersatz. 

I'm a clinical psychologist, 
Specialising in narcissism within hyperspace, 
Where the photographer is the sitter. 
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