Peeping Tom Samba
A howl of poetry inspired by the paparazzi and Dante – I will add the music track later!
Peeping Tom Samba
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Thomas was this long-lensed loser
an optical onanist; eaves-dropping Eves,
secret exposures : nothing but negatives
wielding his rewinds, fumbling with focal length
with five-knuckle shutter-speeds
she’s flesh-toned in Kodachrome
she’s a sacrifice in Lycra
tied to Canons, fired by Leica
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The Zeus-zoom of high Olympus
f-stop fiddling on the roof
he slips out sly as salamanders
to shoot the goose and screw the gander
through shadowed skylines, silhouettes
hunting down his night-lulled prey
through the vertigo-glass savannahs
as they disrobe for bath or bed
they are deflowered by his censors
moonlight is both boon and traitor
in writing this Peeping-Tom Samba.
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disingenuous, film and pixels
a hand of God and a lightning rod
his prying spying raping eye
he centre-folds his splintered victims
spindles, spikes and mutilates them
as he titillates as he pixelates
in the red womb of his dark-room
air-brushing out his sexist cyphers
through slug-bulging fish-lens eyes
through stake-out writs and a mobile phone
he’s the architect of Di’s demise
in a dank motel on a silver screen!
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His bracketing is all-awry
he’s flapping like a shower curtain
as the critics whip a hue and cry
he’s got more steps than a Hitchcock scene
that’s how he burns her in flagrante
in places deep with silent suns
for the second circle media breeze
he walks the path laid down by Dante
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Moonlight shimmers on the tiles
shutters click like castanets
he’s the sparking toaster in a bath
twittering with revelations
and a spoutless, heartless gargoyle laugh
a twisting vein in circulation
two fingers thrust in crude red-eye
as sirens wail and his idols die
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Editors drain dry his dregs
sleazy fingers on his thumbnails
tapping in phone-message codes
as they buy his crotch-shot Holy Grail
so he toasts the rat-pack in the bar
where the Bluetooth wi-fi rodents fly
till hyenas howl in harmony
handing Tom his Pulitzer Prizes
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Tom now lives on borrowed time
his reckoning long overdue
one day he’s captured in his prime
by the longer-lensed jump-suits in blue
the court proceedings gather pace
Masonic handshakes grasp and fail
his prey spits venom in his face
till Tom is Serco’d off to jail
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his clawed hands now Leica-less
he languishes in a crowded cell
through the pinhole-camera in his eye
screams pixel-art of endless hell
the company he now keeps is callous
uncaring that his art endures
so now he gets this brutal lens-flare
and all this bent over-exposure:
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“They may hurt my body…
they cannot take my picture!
but I am in my happy place
the sun is no longer silent…
They may hurt my body…
(how they hurt my body)
but I am in my happy place”
~
He is waist-deep in ice
with not enough faces…