OLD
THE BEST SOUND COMES FROM OLD ICE
There is a 100,000 yr. old iceberg in Uppsala +a man
carving it into musical instruments the sounds of which
might even soften the hearts of ISIS Though they would
have to be human for this & not Nazi re-treads on a mission
There was a time when humans venerated age Now the young
rejoice in the simulacrum of Barbie Doll smooth Doll parts
Hairless +perfect Defects banished in post-millennial Barbie’s
through surgery All of this in service of quest for the perfect
selfie in what may be an emerging selfie-economy
Dr. Sam Rizk who specializes in Rhinoplasty says: Too many selfies
indicate a self-obsession and a certain level of insecurity that most
teenagers have (human nose does not stop morphing until 26)
They come in with their iPhones & show me pictures of the nose they
desire Sam notes a 25% increase over the past year in his Manhattan practice
Mirror Mirror on the wall show me a face my mother can’t recall How is it
that Renée Zellweger morphed into Kim Bassinger with a few slices of the knife
There should be laws to protect the Renées from petrification Now the slob beside
her feasts What wonders is she sitting on? Barbie catatonia at odds with rapture
Insentient beauties worship dead Gods says Poet raging naturally
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Winter 2014
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