There's Nothing To See Here
By Jane Hyphen
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There's nothing to see here
You've seen it all
Pupils fixed, legs bent
It's neither close nor far away
You're safe in your home
This dreamy cocoon so far from shame
And back you go again
Hunter-gathering, not to live
Those eyes so primed for blue and green
For great vistas, open plains
But back you go again
To that, a foot away from you
You search for little glints
Among rivers of dirt
Just images, they cannot hurt
Something new is caught
The pupils swell, it's blinked away
Grand theft
Faces of death
That can't be real
And if it is...
Rivers of blood
Lakes of fluid
From every orifice, sore and ruined
But you seek to be jolted
Revolted
It's all the same
To the ravenous receptors in your brain
So back you go again
To ogle nature from below
To glimpse so many turns and twists
Hairpin bends, squelching trysts
Where nature would never, ever go
The screen, your time, it always wins
It's champion of murky whims
So easy now to fertilise
Demonic projects of the mind
The sinful stench of imagery
Has lined your brain
Has sullied you
You've seen it all
There's nothing new
What's next
Nothing
You're numbed, depressed
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Powerful piece, Jane. I was
Powerful piece, Jane. I was swayed over the interpretation to lots of things..my initial thought was to run with gynae. That's a sign of a grand poem.
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So true, Jane. A society of
So true, Jane. A society of desensitised, voyeuristic fetishists. You've nailed that through the eye.
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