Photography- A poem

Photography,

Photo journalistic,

Everyday, realistic.

Commercial, architecture, landscape, artistic,

Industrial, fashion, ethnographic, pornographic.

Big Brother, fallace, stealer of souls, vouyer.

News seller, instant gratifier, man pleaser, woman abuser.

Barthes, Sontag, Cindy Sherman,

Virginia Woolf, Warhol. Weegie, Francesca Woodman,

Leibovitz, Adams, Arbus, Tina Modotti,

Nan, Evans, Hoffer and even the Paparazzi.

Cheap whore, digital manipulator, image poser,

Center fold, coupons, Jackie O and Marilyn Monroe.

Where did they go:

Lifeless paper product, painter's picture mess,

C-type, digital archival,

Sepia, black and white, hard drive retrival.

Image addict,

Image taker,

Image maker,

image seller,

image buyer.

Newspaper, magazine, graphics and ads,

TV, dreams, even the trash.

Billboards, subways, phones and buses:

Utopia:

Surreal, crop, stretched and air brushes.

Modern ideal.

Surface manipulator.

Brain conditioner.

Consent manufacturer.

Oh Photography,

I got you in my eye.

A few thousand dollars,

A BFA, A critical scholar.

Or maybe a nerd,

Just boys with toys.

Telephoto genitals, with motor drive action.

Studio lights, umbrella traction.

Oh Photography,

You proprietor of obscene.

Detailed, de-sensitized.

Court ordered, jury analyzed.

Click, image, copy, edit, paste, print or post.

Myfacespace, twitter, flicker,

An internet media overdose.

Pry, spy, your friend's friend's acquaintances.

Parties, picnics, reunions and shows.

Visits, vacation, style, shoes and clothes.

Pics, photos, images, jpegs and giffs.

Snap shot, portrait, panoramic, Kodak kiss.

Exacerbate:

Divorce, break-ups, jealousy, envy, love and fears.

Devour and captivate society for years.

Slaves to Western and Capitalist desires,

Destruction of Earth with psychological, monetary empires.