UGH! PRETTINESS!

Everybody Loves a pretty face. A pretty pretty face. Pretty like one-dimensional 18th century rustic English abodes cross-stitched on to sick-baby-pink linen.

ANOTHER PARTING OF SEAS

If not a momentous parting of seas, then at least an exciting edging away of bathroom tiles, the unbridged lane in between broadening up, promising to suck in everyday burdens of Dawn-dampened lethargy...

A BLANKNESS

With a bleak blank sheet essentially white but for print-burns here and there, let us pretend twin shooting stars just careered off the edge, the reckless tyre-stains co-opted by our Hope Industry, promoted as symbols of self-effacing liveliness.

OUR PERFECT MOON

...and for You, the heart would step down, a silent melting away into passivity but for an unwarned glimpse of Our perfect moon, so perfectly shared between your sky and mine.

PETTINESS

All these lives, made so petty by such earnest efforts;
Lives formalized into essential-somethings by latching on to them a happy get-to-together now and then,
Snapshots of face-against-face-against-face glued together with 'oh so hard to contain Love!',
Snapshots, airbrushed over time, grotesquely perfected.

A VERY BRIEF ENCOUNTER

You appeared as a city tabooed against itself, cloaked from end to end in starched black;
Yet you shall be remembered as a city of Suddenness,
Looping around street lamps strings of happy raindrops made of an abrupt cloudburst,
Your concrete walls resigning in joy to broadening cracks.

PRETTINESS

Prettiness, in pretty people, causes eruptions of paradisal worthiness upon the most pointless of spaces.
Prettiness in pretty people fine-tunes the mind of the Non-Pretty towards a severance of the loose ends riding towards devastating distraction, such that attention might be paid, must be paid.
Prettiness in pretty people tutors the mind in nurturing a black vacancy in the heart;
This chasm beckoning to that perfectly-proportioned image of worthiness positioned at a ridiculous distance,
An image defining the Pretty in a breath, while consigning the Non-Pretty to eternal heart burns-
Infinite vacancies heaped one upon the other till emptiness snaps the chains of the measuring scales,
Snaps them in an uncharacteristic assertion of presence.