MERGER TALK

11 12 01

A drowning surplus of compliments
you have earned
from the politics of your physique

You have been dissected
as deeply as a clothed body
can be dissected

Infinite eyes
have been sewn into you
like surgical cameras

to balm the glistened tongues
of imagination
driving lustful analysts

eager for an answer
to pacify all who've authorized
studies of your hypnotic mirrorball movements

across the floors of halls
where compromise born of conflict
is an idealistic myth

You flaunt your incandescent surplus
or it glides with you
as the aura of your walking enterprise

Either way I am debt
and you'll never know your power
till you've swam in my longing currents

Author's Note

This thing is thirteen years old! I think I aged a few years just thinking about that...

Reviews

[Leigh]

There aren't many poems on this subject and I don't think the fact that it was written 10 years ago makes any difference. You have written with great depth and complexity This could be the title of a film. This is a very creative write about a usually bland subject.

[kublakhan27]

Thanks very much for the kind words :)

[Felicity's Eve]

10 years? I think that it is something that you should be proud of. And if you like it's message in your current context, that counts for something, right?

[kublakhan27]

I'm proud of it in some ways, though my poetic voice has evolved a bit since then...but it has regained some relevance for sure haha Thank you for the kind words as always :)

[Felicity's Eve]

It's nothing, really :)

[Frieda P]

At first I thought it was about plastic people, but then when I got to 'debt' I looked at it in an entirely different light. You knocked it out of the park with this one k.

[kublakhan27]

Thank you very much my friend...this one does feel a little schizophrenic to me but all things considered, I should be thankful they all don't feel that way lol I'm very glad you like it ;D

[Frieda P]

haha, hey you gotta be a little schizoid to put yourself out there in the first place, right? We're all a little bit crazy, all the best people are! ;-)

[kublakhan27]

Oh no doubt about it lol ;P Art and insanity have a way of going hand in hand ;)

[gombeggar]

sounds like an interesting journey full of on-lookers and wannabes...or cameras begging to get close to u on yer very own red carpet ride

[kublakhan27]

There is certainly a lot of onlooking and begging in this one...thank you as always for the compliments.