Among The Rich Courtesans of One-Stop Shopping, In A Spot Where You Spend Less, More Specifically The Narcissus Fountain

 

As if he owns the mall. Not? Well . . .

here, his dreams explode into a
crucifix of insanity, giving witches a

scare for their money, sheets, bread,
and the palpable moorings of quirky

financial debts. With him now, a lady,
more a mitten than a prefab being,

is but a mannequin for our designs,
hanging fake jewelry like a fountain's

brine in moldy symbiosis. So we here
gape as a mass of poverty-stricken

painters of a blue period, engrossed
as punks by the lechery of spectacles.

Fountainside concerts, demonstrations
in cookery, exhibitions and ramp shows.

Otherwise, in moments like this, family
photo album pages with the don in the

middle, his dreams getting spewed
out into the bottom of tile structures,

like Roland Barthes' onto a porn film,
a coin from his soul for which boys

dive an ocean floor. This is where he
sits on most afternoons, a popcorn

in hand, girl-watching the aural pro-
cession of words in 3D remonstranc-

es. That's the final advocating of a
man's dreaming stops to a new vision.

Not as if he owns the goddam mall.

 

 

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This poem takes after a place piece by the much-respected Filipino poet, critic, and fictionist Cirilo Bautista, titled Among The Fountains of Villa d'Este. Bautista's style and vision has influenced some of this poet's prosodic efforts considerably.

 

 

 

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