Your Presents

I am sorry

I don't want to be ungrateful or irreverent

but I cannot take your presents

it is not about false pride but about true and

sober sincerity

I do not need and do not want

your two-for-one and three-for-two

your generous discounts and special offers

bonuses, rebates, competitions and merry gamble-games

your alluring memberships, cards and contracts

these are sly, perfidious and mean abuses

and we...do...know!

We came to complain, is that it?

Is that common sense, contemporary life?

Do you say you have a right and wish for all this?

Or are you a victim?

Say it, answer!

Are you...a victim?

There is no such thing as

Business as usual forever

brush teeth twice a day go to dental hygiene

mow lawn collect dog-shit wait it out

check mirror check face aging still there somehow

put sunscreen on go to preventive medical checkups

add some vitamins and minerals wait it out and die

there is always room for dessert

I am sorry

I do not feel like quickening the pulse of communication

I do not care about devices supposed to make life easier

please keep your gadgets, your appliances, your gauge

I do not wish to be chipped, droned over or even liked

I don't want to lease a life, I need no Avatar

I don't want to pretend to not look or be my maturing age

I don't want to smell like a Rose, an Olive, like Kiwi, Armani or You

But in all sensuous qualities real

as real, as nakedly true and

sincerely vulnerable me-real

as possible

Thank you for asking, the answer is: No!