15th February 2014

Sonnet 94


 Shia - of bad features God gave you none, 

Why the paper bag for  red carpet show?*

Why attempt to put exposure in store?

It's being no-one keeps life on go slow.

Fans heart star visuals, red carpet graces,

Market saturation's at your expense,

We are  Lords and owners of your faces,

Fame's sole measure of your short excellence.

Immersion method acting keeps us sweet,

Act  out feel good guys for us or you die

At film premiers (that's where you and us meet)

We measure out red carpet dignity;

For sweetest things turn common by their deeds;

We love to strangle burnt out stars  like weeds.


*Shia LaBeouf, film star photographed on red carpet wearing a brown paper bag over his head with slogan "I AM NOT AN ATTENTION-SEEKING WHORE ANY MORE" artfully scrawled  in black marker pen, or perhaps paint.