Replacing Beauty with Glamor
Improvements are improvements and they’re not.
The Silicon King Kongs hold us (Faye Ray)
And from their heights they treat us all like snot.
They say their next improvement will be way,
Way better but like love of beastly Kong,
It makes us squirm and wish for former times
And apps that we could use. The new one’s wrong
In crucial ways but big ITs are slimes.
Both old and new in Hollywood re-twist
The beauty we call life. They shape it, gild
It, making pigs’ ears into silk kissed
By huge investments. Ears of pigs are grilled
By massive money. Fausts these moghuls are.
They make from fakery a pig’s ear star.
~ Phillip Whidden