Self Conscious Habit

This was inspired by a couple of couples I have met, tourists in the far south of Argentina and the book Stuff White People Like. It's not meant to offend anyone... Or is it. Some may think it's a single man's diatribe against couples. It certainly isn't; it's against couples and the middle class, so there. Also, I have soent time in the advertising world over the course of the last year. Oh well, perhaps I will fall into line one day. Must do better...


The Matching Fleece Brigade

Present arms in unison, coupledom
Present our class for all to see,
Here is our greatest weapon,
our taste, our ever so tasteful taste
our painfully painstaking manners
knowing looks, we know so very much
We are in it up to our eyeballs,
in the know, we do, we think we do
we know each other so well so very
well we wear it well, the same clothes
Our talk is of one another, our talk is
constant and defining, we present our
talk to you, we talk of each other in
Present Simple, so conscious is our habit
In unison, in dreaded crowded unoriginal
originality, sophisticated banality, re-
constructed, tongue in cheek we reek
of sun-dried optimism, unrelenting,
brand new loyalty, spoilty, spoilt we,
we who came from miles around to forget
to convene in repackaged working values
new labour new america, this administration
this vaccuous disease, this advertisement for
nothing but different versions of same.