Devices & Desires

.. we fail to realise how unnecessarymany things areSeneca - Letters from a Stoic

I may forbear fingering magalogsof wants-not-needs - buying hopeon our poking 'phones of poppingofferings/ Mutterings are greedily overheard by AI [I'm replacing ourbarbecue - a B&Q ad appears - its

pop-up perturbs us whilst we viewLove Island's insta-brigues]/ I cannavel-gaze all day/ I am a shoddycommodity [mine not so desirableunless re-figured by an airbrush inPhotoshop's too-mendacious bag] 

My weight drops off when I bezzleless - mathematics of fact - Moneydon't grow on trees - Mum's mantrafrom 1982 - Use of public transporta sign of failure - Margaret's lie/ Myfirst kiss was so cheap [still - it sits

on my tongue - that sort a' buss - itwas false] Cash was a way to sex - porn - not free-to-use [shame rarelyfell away] & kisses ad-libbed - atopbus #72 - impurity among us teens[on snogged trips to better shops - 

one after another] & invigorated bya weekend of expectation - parties& bars - fingerings & fumbles - fags& drugs - waking up numbed & lostin off-girl sweat in unknown rooms/Street signs guided me back home

with my thirst - but not desiring mynight's before/ Shops locked up forone day of rest - unless you cravedtobacco or red top headlines - suchdays - could we survive them now -in this miniaturised world of want? 

Parcels fall through front doors & amomentary high of fresh unboxing - an art for product-placed vloggers/Hopes are unwrapped & set buzzin'[a buy-it-now drug]/ China will fulfillendless shite - 'til we gripe - suckedoff & broke/ Kick me back to '86 - to

those top decks of tongues & tits - Ilived a simple life without Byzantinechoices to tug my eye/ My return tonothing much to do would follow myshutting off purchasing in my palm/It draws on us - until we are drained/Perfect knowledge? Let it discharge