28th December 2013

Sonnet 55

Out of town malls faked-up like monuments

Where poets go to sup caffeine and rhyme,

Ruminating on paninis' contents,

Analysing cookies; cakes; sex and time.
 
Profit is loss, turnover/overturn

The fabricated concrete masonry -

There can be no force of nature will burn

 To commit this Pompeii to memory:

New ones get built faster than enmity

Breeds one to one war in the changing room,

What one wears what counts for posterity

Amid consumer mentality doom.

If the need for some refund should arise,

We die in this, and other shoppers' eyes.