Sunday 8 July 2018

selfie

the excavation of the Self
the superficial i-xploration
from where this will to make
a photographic portrait of the Self?
the capture of the hero of your own story
the desire to be your own celebrity
the documenting, websiting,
blogging, tweeting,
facebooking and instagramming
of the Self and for the Self
the strange 21st century tendency to expose the Self
on the brickless walls of cyberspace

why do we want to sit in a cold photo-booth
to be captured by a machine?
it is so passé to be captured by bureaucratic eyes
and offered onto the lense of Big Brother
with drab and smileless faces
we will press the camera-button ourselves to
photograph our rehearsed smiles, why thank you!
how many extra centimetres our necks and arms will have to grow
we refuse to ask anyone to do it for us
we will do it ourselves, we insist

welcome the Selfie: where the Self is in control of the Self
 - we believe and hope so -
we want to be the rulers of our own fate
designers of our own roads
publishers of our own faces
we refuse to be automatons in
the soulless mechanics of existence
we will glow
we will be beautiful
we do not need catwalk-mouths to
pose and pout for us
we will smile our own smiles
and steer in our own direction
the time that we wait for someone to
choreograph our fate is long past
it is now the time that we empower our own lives
and it begins with 
the Selfie

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