Fireworks

Opportunity knocks

Out of their heads
Checked shirts with chequered pasts
Nest in a semi-deserted Mediterranean Harbour
Out in the vista it's at 10% capacity
inside their nodding heads
it may be even less.

Businesses closed
the drowning mew
down lagers & G&T
force the last mouthful of
supersized fake ethnicity
down out & away
satisfied sighs mark
another successfull leisure program
for the unimaginitive

While people bred to serve
Suffer knock on effect
of mandated medical
applied pressure.

Many locals watch closely
along with the sea life
in the tank on the table.
who is to be eaten next?

as the mob leer
ready us for another
peristalsis pushes
towards cementing us in
up to our necks
signed sealed deliveries
into self agrandised flyover plan

An Airport duty free zone
sterile Saudi looking sheen
cloned as development
sold as a walk through
glass walled perfumerys & alchohol
the style sold as a worthy life

A merited virtue
towards prescribed escape
is just a
variant on a theme

15 minutes of fame
in pretend smiling neighbourhoods
is business as usual
feet are placed in doors

bases are fabricated
national social hygeine
the gradual Plague boils
in a climate of lies.

it's a land grab.
it's a clearance sale.
opportunity comes a knocking.

A reward for saying & thinking
the right things

The boys & girls line up to graze
in the nosebag
of a possible exit
to designed maze

Big Jobs
for smart little boys & girls
who look the part
passed the screentest
with confident cosmetics
and dental work completed

I can't help but feel concern
as the Tourist struts
while the towells
on placemarked loungers
await a fatty acid
satiated belly flop

these proclaimers confidently
announce to the delusion
Constructed salespeak in repetition
by the pleasant tacit agreement

deep in the recess
of anything remotely human
behind their designer sunglasses
"it's all going back to normal"

Opportunity presents itself
as a decent chap
working for the company
he keeps

Factory settings are restored.
Bars on windows
Locks on doors
replaced in stealth

The risky business is
invisible prison
guarded by self policy
of the tempered polite

pressed for time
it suits the sirs
Will Madam be joining us?

Mr Rocher is really spoiling us.