Chirpy Dirges

42 Line Limit

42 line limit 1 motif something that says something to me
Heather West's Mona Lisa smile
Lisa del Giocondo's smirk quotidian universalenigma 
whys&wherefores lost to history but
Heather West's Mona Lisa smile
gutwrenchingly pregnant w/ lethal dramatic irony yet
Heather West's Mona Lisa smile
& the Mona Lisa's Mona Lisa smile
united in the implication that at that moment  
things could go this way could go that (10)
precious delicate contingent knowing innocent 
ripe for exploitation or exploited already 
coyness a stoic scream
Leonardo's exploitation Fred's exploitation my exploitation 
42 lines 1 motif something that says something to me
Forest of Dean I will live 
The rape joke is Daddy I'm thru choo choo
my exploitation of her exploitation
all for the Po-Biz's exploitation of us uglyfolk
too diffident for politics too tonedeaf for showbusiness (20)
the wrong kind of proles to (id)poll well in a genteel judge's  
judgement in a shitlib postmod Artscouncilfunded 
judgement to them we are workingclass grotesques
precious delicate contingent knowing 
innocent grotesques 
l/ Heather West's Mona Lisa smile
not Zola nor Orwell nor Welsh & absolutely not 10 years of work-
shopping could ever encapsulate expiate or explain
only anoint with ink & exploit
so I say fuck the Salon poets fuck the holygrail GCSE readinglist (30)
fuck my singing for more gratifying exploitation 
Heather West's Mona Lisa smile
is where all art all Mona Lisas fall short
irony tension crafted light & dark
exposed as inanities fatuities impotent insipid
no poem no art redeems our society our species
no prayer spares her
Fred's exploitation
no laurels spare any of us 
our damnable complicity in the magnitudes of exploitation we live by (40)
Forest of Dean she will live 
on a hermit shortlist a heaven safe from  humanity (42 
Shit over the limit)