Culture Reduced To Complete Junk: (2021)

Ads collide with ads, At junk culture terminus. Images and sounds Accelerate across screens. Virtues and ideals Are constantly corroded. Anytime, anywhere The 'happiest' place on earth. Because you're worth it. The power of dreams and the Relentless pursuit Of perfection. Obey your Thirst and don't forget To taste sugar -free rainbows. Fly the 'friendly' skies. Heartbeat of America The choice of a new Generation. Just do it! Cannibalised styles Regurgitated notions Contortions of facts In the crazed three ringed circus Distorted mirrors That blur truth and illusion. Believe in better: Suspension of disbelief. Blue and red are now Bleeding into one. It's all Just part of the game Of spurious politics. When it rains, it pours. I perceive a vast array Of dead- eyed doctrines And dislocated faces. Our idols echo The horror of the abyss. Silicone comforts And digital fantasies. Yet no -one, it seems, Becomes any younger. Go With the flow of things, As the great geometry Of classical forms Are reduced to paltry dots. Too many glitches In audio/video. Pretty plastic dolls Melt under a neon sun Songs of nostalgia Often haunt the frayed airwaves I hear strange voices But they're not those of angels. Keep on purchasing All the modern essentials Of living. No space To create, only spectate. Fractured slogans sell Their tainted, Day-Glo magic Digital fashions And cartoon designs try to Cover up the flaws In the system and distract From real purposes And all human conundrums. No longer do we Sit together in circles And tell each other Stories: no communion. Just insidious, Monotonous, feedback loops. No communion. Too many bright distractions No communion Only communication Via media Too many bright distractions.