A vacuum perceived requires a fix.
It may not be a real lacuna but
The fear that it might be results in tricks
Of golden surgery. The star must strut
As if there were no fault. No plastic knife
Will do the job. A golden one cuts best.
And if an actor chooses the wrong wife,
A new one will be pressed against his chest
Beside the scarlet carpet at the next
Awards. A super someone is compelled
In every way to stave off being hexed
By ordinariness, boringness quelled.
..A Caravaggio is hired, it seems,
…. To paint new starlets in limousine dreams.
~ Phillip Whidden