The Style of Contempt

Prompt: Credit image to: Mark Hicken ( http://www.hollandhicken.com/gallery%20009%20lrg.html )

phantom cardboard cutouts
on the edge of acceptance,
languishing in their chic separation.
revealed flesh devoid of sex,
wreathed in smoke
and the incense of desperation.

fumes mirrored by the wisps of hair,
both floating wraith-like
in an atmosphere
of shapeless "whatever..."

deception clouded,
smoked over a smirk of disdain
and arrogant social aversion.