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         leaving your xenophobia where
         your charity might have conceived
         cliché of the week beamed
         on any blank surface
         switched off to a new blankness
         drawn by lots in praise of slogans
                                                       frames are for fables
                                                            with matching morals
                                                                 negation of news
                                                  balls kicked or manhandled
                                                  speedometers up in smoke
                                        records scratched           surfaces broken
                                   the stopwatch is on fast sex
                              resalinate for porous fatigue
                         did you see...
                                             hit the road      Jack

               brands are for breakfast table names
                         if you have one
                               to soup up the flaked-out
                                                     fragrance the foetid
                                                              sex up the charmless
            relax on your chaise longue ou percée
                                 with compilations of live cash
                                                    be anyone you fancy
        go for yoga    then
                        and miss out on millennium flavour
                                                             on your own head be it
                             ours is in bed 

                             cool is for corpses
                                               in windowless areas
               formations of faces                                            computer-gray
                        holes in air pocket
                       spotting the furred lung
     advanced cases of sleeping sickness
                                    sometimes forget to breathe
con moto of artificially perpetuated
                          cascades                          whiteness of noise
                                      secreting killer handshakes
          no carbon dating for throwback voyeurs
                                                gone terminally blind
               about to witness the incontrovertible
                    seminal specimen         mobile           self-perpetual
                                         more durable than bronze
                                               will not rot       rust        erode       or perish
                    electro-sensitive           magnetically taggable
          lightweight             alkaline-resistant                  rodent-proof
                    immune to effluents      weathering      hard and soft water

     container           component                                          conveyor
exhaust fields solvent investment in the supreme values
               will be remunerated
those who keep questioning the miracle’s repeatability
               will be renumerated
the shaven tongue will not talk cognitive dissonance
               with its refusal of resolution
sterilized numbers      immune to mutilation      reagents
               of an ultimate solution

          marks are for questions
                    computer-readable in multiples
                                                            or injunctive of open discourse
               on paper           tape           or screenable disc
                                             rehearsing for the conveyor belt
                         whose packaging residues fade in
          to the akasic record
                                                                 tuning to the diurnal rhythm clock
                              lacunar           luminous before its time
       the chant stutters an inserted syllable
       to the polyphony of massed supporters

          soap is for systems
                         with self-servicing switch-off point mechanism
                                   sponging up all critique
                                                       into the metabolic process
                             its catalysts are out of a calendar
                                                            composed of best before dating
     fingering the synthetic ingenuous for reference
                                                              still born
                                                                 to lipservice a limbo of labels
                                                                           for external use only
                                           dictating from a shorthand dictionary of metaphors
                                   bogged in the slimy smileage of simile
                         present first
                 more barbed pith in good gossip
              another dotted circle
           omniscient                                   come on baby
        grand or domestic
     tense person
                                                                           narrative nil
                    if corpses could excrete
                                        what would the neighbours turn to
                                                                 a minute hand spared
                                                            from their caged machines
                                                                      hung up on solvent
                                                                 two-way mirror agency systems
                                             relapse into petrochemical complications
                                               left to their appropriate measurements
                         character is for kids
          dying to be born
                                             to imprint on the first moving object
                    to identify
                              to individuate
   when the birds disappeared
                                                  trains might be spotted
                         on the station’s closure
                                                       car numbers to collect

                    tongue stuck to palate
                                        chat-up lines crossed
                                                     prescribe witch doctorates
                                                             dated 31st April
       at home           in the field                or mobile
                                                       most consumers now
                 find rubber too slow
                                   the neon dawn
                         readable from satellites
                    will let you know
               a bio-degradation
   more perennial than plastic

                              the interpretation is open to interpretation