superficial

howdjya like that
infotainment?
where'd ya get that hair?
you're almost there
but mostly not
and what you ought
to do is hide away
you're playing gay
and everybody's seeing through
the artifice
you're twice as nice as
anybody thought
nor anybody does
or has or
where's your courage
to the sticking place
you never stay
you've gone away
again
disposable everything's gone
rotton
denmark
ain't got none on
this fair kingdom
SuperPower
Idol of the Hour's
wearing thin
this facile grin
so fragile
where's the fading whim
you've lived on
getting slim
you're fading into
no thing
city, it'll wring
the what-you-had-to-give
into a disposition
to decline.

-ZL 10.27.06