'shopping the Ode

 Oh Poetry


how facile your written record
churning and remixing words
carving chimeric sentences from stodgy fact

ignored by some enslaved to authenticity
who enlist the uncorrupted pixel
to certify the truth from fiction

or so they think ...
 
Oh Photoshop

delivering us from not quite realized perfection
de blemishing the de facto
showing us how it all should be

replacing boring skies with blood red sunset
removing wrinkles from the clothes and clothed
disappearing those who no longer claim our favor

walking us in swanky shoes so that our fat will fade away
buying us that chichi bag so that our pimples disappear
slathering after shave so that our macho abs will hypnotize

you are so mischievous and clever
conjuring the funny inappropriate
mixing metaphors

A Chimpanzee God of Wine
The Duckling with the Pearl Earring
Mona Lisa wearing Michael Jackson glasses

and yet ...

Oh Authenticity

taunt me to peel back the veneer
of Wordshopped worship of illusion
confront the fear of imperfection

dare me to drink your unvarnished veracity
to relish your forthright phrase its solid tenacity
to embrace your primal skin its tactile reality

zits and all

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