With an ultra-hard stainless-steel exoskeleton
said to weather any storm
the price alone leaves me cold
in every way shape or form
to describe the Tesla Cybertruck
or so I have heard
in the iconic unpainted silver metal
'origami' is the word
at least that's how it looks
and said to come in 'any colour'
as long as it's 'nothing'
'puce' is not in the books
Supple intake transforms standard to salient
Triumph thanks tantalised talent
Trials confronted conduct products ultimate
Survival sullied for an alternate
Symphony bellows true blood tempo rhythm
Value balloons with enthusiasm
Transmits fail-safe faith in methods titanium
Sophisticates yesterday's system
Theories distributed to avid students taught
Voluminous sage bolsters scholars
Series of gradual upgrades steadily sought
Take bulging pulses, pump dollars
8th November
Innovation
free from wrong
making me strong
Your rejection
is a violent blow
to the face of my affection.
It stops the flow
of my compasssion's blood
and dries the flood
of my burning passsion.
But I will continue to feed
this innocent attraction.
I will ontinue to breed
this stainless love
until its muscles grow tough.
No home, he says,
eyes sliding up the side
of my cheek, glancing off.
He means this-does-not-hurt-me
but I feel the icicles
gather there.
He grins and I build
stainless steel curves
spanning tumbling rivers,
morning touching skyscrapers
in a galloping race of fire,
window-boxes with neat rows
of coloring-book perennials,
a guitarist, a curb-side
case filled with absent quarters.
He speaks and I crush glitter-snow
into muddy gutters; I paint
shadowy entranceways, corner
restaurants with tottering old waiters
and pizza dripping shimmering grease.
His hand against my shoulder
is split-second recognition
on crowded streets, neon puddles,
a spider-web of echoing
subway caves.
When zippers chase themselves
around his bags, he sees distant
billboards and hesitates;
He leaves, streetlights winking out
across my eyes.
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