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Fashion publications

Fashion publications. Written 12-28-04 By M. Aaron Hein.

Another day, another ranting! Here’s to the fashion publications and tabloids of the world which consider pointless expenditures of the rich useful and necessary news.

Flip open a page
to any one of those publications
those which market
various wares of the sense
to inspire the
audience to search for unlikely aims

ones which purvey
elaboration
and nonsensical gain

its point? you ask?
why, it’s simple to say

such expectations
garner the impulse to pay
from page to page one looks
and they are beseiged
not with much written content
but advertisements and imagery

the fabulous new look
they claim
an expression far overused
it’s the look of the season
hardly to the skeptical writer, a muse

we hear it week after week, month after month,
those said and tired appeals from the clothiers
to finance their production runs

to don expensive and needless things,
scarves, and hats made of dead animals

gaudy trinkets, watches and bulky rings
or maybe, just maybe,
they ask us
to please

confirm their so-called expertise
the words and propaganda
of the ever present fashion police
to turn the page with ever tense ancitipation

to pull out the credit cards and cell phones,
and contribute to personal elation
to provide just another statistic to the next week’s
printed sensation

which compared to the previous week’s, would
be all the rage
read with tenacity, the words of this magazine,
on almost any page

ones which consider news,
the latest celebrity’s controversy
the secret agreements with the vaunted paparazzi
those fools which are often convicted of stalking

to catch such seemingly important things
as an actor, walking the dog or talking
oh, how exciting it must be
to catch in the glimpse of one’s eye, someone
well known and wealthy

is the essence of their image
supposed to inspire and help one to see
or, is it simply something evident of frivolity

of fancy cars, fine liquors and the
obtuse bling-bling
please don’t say it again, before the angels sing!

some say is an expression of art, and I’d give them
that much slack
but when wealth and excess is involved, it seems just a
bit more crass

how can the images of richness relate to the reader
when they’re do distantly amassed
in the fashion meccas of the east and the west
some in the center, but not much in the rest

those places, so fortified, so seemingly blessed
with ceremonies of pomp and lavish celebration
open to the priveleged, but closed to much of the nation
these shrines of the elite, of decorated connotation
the next time you turn the page, ask yourself these
questions.

fin...

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