instamatic london june 1970
It is opening night at Paolozzi's
crashed car exhibition.
Crowds drift and mill, drinking hard
around the hot gallery, maul
a dismal concertina'd Mini,
paw and punch a tottering A40, but
thick as flies on carrion they've clustered
about the stove-in grin
of a king-sized flare-finned 'fifties Pontiac
that squats on its own wreckage like its name.
One guest has thrown his glass at it,
smiles muzzily at the effect. Another
has crawled on the roof with a bottle,
crisscrosses claret down the shivered windscreen
with weaving hands. A third,
intensely between hiccups, wrenches
a door off, you can see the sweat
spreading through his mohair.
And in the front left corner
a noted art critic nailed down
by a topless girl is slowly being
interviewed.
The interview is being viewed
in the back right corner slowly
on live closed-circuit TV.
The art of dying
is in the cars.
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