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 21^st 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