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Jun 2017
Life through a lens.
Watching other people’s revelry
through the filter of a dead TV.
Perfect picture
perfect pitch
and an incredible intensity –
But it’s not life.
This vicarious festivity
neutered and numbed
by a precision of pixels,
This slum depiction of synthetics ideals
Is not life…
B H H Burns
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B H H Burns  F/Norwich, UK
(F/Norwich, UK)   
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