Post postmodernists will argue
that there are no new forms nor themes
upon which to hang the novel's hat
when contemporary society has become mere show
and honesty is marketed in politics
Whether art can be the place for a human to show her face
is subject to continuing debate.Characters in soap operas
become people we know(or is that vice versa?
Poetry long ago dropped the mask at midnight
No one believes words.Movie scriots demand characters
that engage us (not as heroes)-more
as mundane SIDEWAYS dysfunctional mirrors
of a deeper existential confusion
that art may never seek to explicate nor erase.
Therapy continues-even when drug wars and jails fail
Airport novels gain more weight when paperback with gilded covers
Sales of Stephen King and crime novellas compete
with self-improvement fantasies-is the marketplace
the true parameter of meaning?Bad movies made from worse fiction
crowd our screens.The American Dream (historic)becomes a theme
for failed novelists to sell screenplays.The fact that media
has long become our mode as well as content makes for storyline
and journalism ,blog and text becomes the food of future hits
The more we watch,the more we get hypnotised
If the novel is the place for this debate,this becomes our infinite jest
If a poem fails,easy to replace.When TITANIC becomes a movie
it must next get re-released in 3D technology-to find new audience
It is the mode of storytelling has become the story.
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