Fowler Schocken

Fruit wax

in nutrient rich healthy

looking eyebrows drawn

in slo-mo billowing silk

dancing across forest

and desert

and seashore

100% natural

blue-blooded (always blue)

euphemism marketed

by ocean roar

and trading floor

and focus group

constructed

constricted

demand fed

demand led

shrink wrapped

demand shaped

bogof

oiling the trickle-up

flow unmediated

by towel or

tampon or

mooncup or

sponge or

swing on a trapeze

and let out a flood of

cultural inpropriation

enclosure for resale

as a commodity pastiche

as a sad echo of what once was

as Vi Subversa sang

back when rebellion

wasn't yet a product

“everybody has their price

UP YOURS!”

24th April 2016, SG17 - advertising, with acknowledgement to Al Head and Vi Subversa for embedded

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