precision engineered laughter tracks
precision engineered..
enter stage right lovable goofy neighbour
character
slides in sotto
/pregnant pause /batman joker grin
floor manager lifts
card up to studio audience
in bold comic sans the
card instructs..
CHEER/APPLAUD!!
rippling deep-fried rain hits
up the tin ceiling
the satin static sweep
serenades wah-wahs woozy..
as elegant as a geisha girl a cheery
blossom-painted fan
the floor manager
gently flutters the card lower again
a finger
raised to her elfin lips
trepanning the tranced
trampolined
skinner box signals the swooned
like
rustling leaves hush in jazz brushes
folding like electrocuted kittens in an animal
testing lab
these twitched kittens
also pass the calisthenics test
aces all the way..
precision engineered newscasts
precision engineered..
i surf the news channels
all fiercely in
competition for audience share
independent and
autonomous networks
yet more often than not
the same news items
are presented
in
the same order
with similar headlines
and perspectives offered
scoped from the same
vantage points
scooped and slopped
channel to channel
franchise to franchise
liquid statues in situ..
day after day and year
after year
and decade after decade
and
this mysterious and
apparently non hive-mind vibes
whirling such telepathic
consensus magic yet how
this does not correlate
with real life
not even football
matches
or the most mundane of
conversation
well this state of affairs has never been any
other way
must be in the natural
order of things so i say okay..
precision engineered dialectics
precision engineered..
it is so challenging
this
talking head presents a cherry cola opinion
yet that one a diet cherry
cola opinion..
and i am directed to choose
between two options
only two sides to every
story
a third option is
sometimes offered not sure
do you
agree with a or b
disagreeing with both means i am not
sure
phone us now..
i prosecute..
simmered to a boil i percolate my lid lifted
lowered
in my vanishing point
the blinding heavens
drift away..
precision engineered opinion makers
precision engineered..
these opinion makers
are built in factories
each expert in
everything exactly
pristine bladed in the breeze to sway
each like an emerald flame
a kindling glade
the air filtered
thousands of times pure
so no chance of thought-virus infection
air-locked clad water-tight
brigade77 in civvies
i am a humble ant at
room temperature
their blade with climbing vines my watchtower
the summit my vista ready-made saves me
time..
precision engineered optics
precision engineered..
box-fresh loaded and
ready
transfixed i gaze into their
benign ejector-seat eyes
news programming in
5-4-3-..
never look away never so
much as glance away
might miss the opportune
moment
to receive that all-important
elusive jigsaw piece
they always warn us all
..all
that fake news out there..
i trust them implicitly
to frame accurately all my given realities..
precision engineered voodoo
precision engineered..
needles impress our minds a psychic acupuncture
an invigorating tonic
fresher than himalayan air
without all that annoying yeti shit..
precision engineered lookalikes
precision engineered..
sacrifice and plastic
surgery
an unknown demise aid a
seamless resurrection
the ears are almost the
same
yet the voice and mannerisms have changed
probably only my
trick-playing imagination..
precision engineered history books
precision engineered..
we gave them a
partition
and in bengal withheld their food from them
we allowed them the opportunity..
to naturally lower
their population
by a fair few million
we smashed their hands
and their looms
we gave them free uniforms
to die in our wars
and for the ones who survived
the right to no pension
we encouraged sometimes
forceful conversion
call it benign civilising coercion
we let them pay for and
build our railways
we gave them this
democracy
gave
but were they grateful
..were they f..
precision engineered popular culture
precision engineered..
attitude
promoters posture the norms
artistic values axioms and expressions
net curtain personas softly
carpet us
with only the best of intentions
i watch the film i buy the score
i snort
a few more lines of popcorn
and popcorn never killed anyone
smiley face and like
they chop the mirrors they ice-skate the
tracks
break in my lines..
precision engineered songwriters
precision engineered..
both edgy and
product-friendly but truly gifted
in silken-sheathed skin
provide us with the soundtrack to our lives..
romance on bass
righteous anger on lead
guitar
misdirection on keyboards
imperial machinations cloak drums
drummers so silent drum
bamboo dreams in the foyer
bubble wrap oil to irrigate my foundation ..
precision engineered enemies
precision engineered..
the dead mastermind from his cave complex
complete with indoor plumbing
and kidney dialysis unit
and armed only with a satellite phone
and a fake mick
fleetwood beard
instructed the hijackers
phantom hijackers armed only with box-cutters
how to defy all the
radars and defence systems
as well as the laws of physics
and by god they did it..
before seal team 6
shot him to pieces and threw the phantom into
some ocean
i hope the intelligence services
prodded
the dark magician how he weaved his evil spell
it may
not have occurred to them to ask him
such a missed opportunity for us coincidence
theorists
especially in light of the
mysterious seal tragedy
that befell many of the
team shortly afterwards deep-sixed..
precision engineered mythologies
precision engineered..
breaking news the tragic incident
still sketchy
misunderstood and
tortured
enigmatic and mysterious
it seems the celebrity
gardener
threw herself into her manual lawnmower
there will never be
another one like her
..not for at least another few weeks..
and we will manage that..
i had no idea how affected
i would be
i suffer from hay fever
thus deeply alienated from the garden centre-privileged..
precision engineered mass trauma
precision engineered..
in her honour
garden centres will be selling her mower lines
at half-price
one-minute silence
will be propagated all over the youkay
i am okay i will join in
i will
be activated and appropriately devastated
i will buy one of her lawnmowers
though no i have no lawn
but up there somewhere
she will be smiling
she highlighted the
issue of manual lawnmower safety
so her tragic inexplicable
death will not be in vain
in extremis dexterity..
though a man
i am in touch with my feelings deeply
demon driver of my hamster-wheel benz
my neon candle lights
bright this promised land
i will not be a killjoy
i shall sway my votive mowercandleTM
it will be almost as tragic as the diana thing
and that pity party was brilliant
a glastonbury-style alpha-death wellspring
the highlight for me was
when a tabloid
celebrated the kosovar or whatever
punched on the chin
for grubbing a thrown funeral teddy
innocently lying on the
heaped wrapped flowers
i am not a celebrity so
please let me in..
magic moments for the
goddess of the hunt
crossroads
and the underworld..
precision engineered evidence
precision engineered..
and in other news..
the assassin vanished into a million pieces
but was identified by his
car insurance papers
which he
considerately kept on his person
thankfully discovered
by a mossad agent
who happened by luck to
be strolling nearby
found a
gun near a drain
dissolve..
precision engineered fear-hopium
precision engineered..
if you vote for me you vote for hope
if you vote for him you
vote for
famine pestilence and the apocalypse
and that is before things turn really ugly
i give you hope he offers only fear
so you better listen to me or you will be
sorry..
precision engineered status symbols
precision engineered..
hey kids
you
see that phone your mum bought you last year
..now is only for losers
this new model is now
available
a
special limited edition mint of six million
ding-ding
you can a winner again
and we
will issue a newer limited edition model
this
time next year no fear seven million
tell
your mum..again then..
first
come first serve though..
precision engineered freedom
precision engineered..
i wave that cloth i sing that anthem
i raise it high
the sight brings me to tractor-beamed tears
i instruct the creator to save a monarch
otherwise
what would he do with her
and ultimately
that might signal bad news..
for the creator..
i am happy for him we directed him
the creator knows who to
save now
and that makes me cry even some more
he is so lucky and so are we
drop-shipped my heart wrenched with joy
sprinkled in my tears
i am living the
delegated stardust life
yes tragic celebrity death is always wrong but
count me in
like an aerodynamic
candle walking in the wind
like an extended
mixed simile the cow dragged in..
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