Fata Morgana with the Freshwater 5
ELSON COHEN
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(If you see something that) Doesn't look right Speak to staff Or text the British Transport Police On 61016 We'll sort it See it Say it Sort it Thirty nine swab tests later And I'm still Inconclusive Not the first time I've been told I'm hard to read Anyway I'm logging out And I won't be saving My password for 2020 It's 2021 And I'm still behind On lip-service payments But That's by the by I'm still haunted by Some recent exhibitionism A case study in ghostmodernism And what follows Is a vague recollection Of a Fleeting Feeling An ex-talk show host Exhibiting The excluded lower bodies From Ancient Greek busts In the alley Behind the Pop-up Concept Lemonade stand It wasn't long before The inhuman resources got to him Like a dissonant Flower basket He was to be tried Tried again And left to hang Standing at the gallows Made from dried Glittery macaroni And thinking of the Alpha Beta and Z Generations The ex-talk show host requested An epitaph in WingDings And under his expiration date It's what's on the other side that counts He went out with a bang As well as a crack Playing to the gallery As the noose was fastened Okay Google the nearest exit Wry smiles Polite laughter His post-career choices Were a gamble If I were to follow suit I'd prefer roulette Where the odds Against me At best are 37 To oe Counting the crowd His were 743 to one And in the end The joke was on me It wasn't my style Curating such Niche-eh stuff It was too cosy with The Sheitgeist Neither do I gamble I spend the majority of my time Reading out of date menus Off-road maps And tourist pamphlets For places that no longer exist You know Non-fiction I could tell something was off My snide-y senses had begun to tingle And what had started as a tingle Became a full-blown tango As I realised That everyone Was blinking In sync To myself My suspicions were confirmed When I stared straight ahead Without a flicker of an eyelid For 37 minutes And I was joined by 743 Spectators Who didn't bat an eyelash The ex-talk show host Noose still tied to his neck Pulled an armchair up to the stage Leant back Began asking The hangman About his latest book I felt bad for the executioner He was clearly embarrassed By this impromptu plug Some questions Hit some Sore spots Namely His introduction of the Unpaid internship programme During the Spanish Inquisition He must not have imagined That morning as he had a shave Before putting on his hood That he would be the one Later that day Put on the spot He faltered Stuttered Messed up his lines In what could've been A tribute to Tommy Cooper It was the Executioner Turned Ghostwriter Who died On stage That day The spectacle before me Transpired to be An elaborate scheme A well-executed Performance piece The bloodthirsty public Were paid actors The barnacles Attached to a Ship of deceit It was However salty A free ride Tired Bored And paranoid I left the set And entered the afterparty Met By anti-socialites And impossible circles to square I quickly boiled into non-existence Like leek in risotto stock I don't know What hurts My cochleas more Deconstructing art With eclectic choral drilling Or Deconstructing art With a chorus of electric drills Alone I wondered If I too Was waiting In the departure lounge Like the ex-talk-show host Low-budget Lazarus Would I be happy With the amount Of stuff I had liked On Instagram If As De Botton said Attention is low-grade love Surely all my low-grade love Adds up to Something Somewhere Somehow I fantasised About wading Out of the Ocean of info Welcoming gravity Casting away My non-biodegradable surfboard No longer needed To carve 360 The algorithmic waves Please Lord If there is any mercy Above those clouds of pollution Please Let that day come I had a sudden admiration For the strong Silent types Those figures cast of steel Such heroic stoicism Anthony Gormley's Statues Of himself
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Written by: Alexander Elson, Matthew Cohen
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