Rembrandt painted hundreds in one medium or t’other. Thanks to photo’s techno-grams Selfies of all kinds abound, Home paintboxes thick on the ground Which begs the question: Exploration or self-love? Motives passive and elusive, definitely inconclusive, Probably a votive to self-love; The selfie shows its needs up front. Pretext for one’s vanity, its insecurity.
Then there’s the blog: A kind of selfie, yes? There to impress via modernity’s express A world you hope Is waiting for your scoop, Your dope, your ****.
When you’ve seen a glut of bodies Photo-shopped and chopped to please, Is there more you need to see? Or is it true desire breeds desire And that fact a warning dire?
Impudently, imprudently Continuing until we rue the days that bluntly Lead us nowhere in particular But to the usual, predictable, familiar wrinkling And the loss of beauty’s pull.
Selfies & The (Selfish) Need 7.5.2017 Circling Round Vanities II; Arlene Corwin