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what if

we weren't

such deeply morbid

pale and wired

beings

sucking such precious life

out of

our cheated fellow peers

would we still

tend

to believe

so easily

such deviantly defiant and

shallowly suspectful things

of and about

other lesser anonymous

such selves

why then

every last pathetically pitiful

Charlamaigne tabloid

would be out and down

sweeping the gritty grime bends

of cheap side

and just perhaps

such clearly fragile fish

bowl swimmers

like the lovely forlorn

people's princess

sweet Diana herself

would not have had to die

so very tragically and far too soon

for if we had

rid our voyeuristic selves of this

one bitter form

of public, filthy greed

there just might have been

one less statistic

resulting in death

via the publics own

recently created beast

stalkers for the rags

out upon the brutal

paparazzi beat...............

(July 13,1999)