oscar night

movie moguls, reel artisans
rabbis and bishops
dilettantes of the antiseptic silver screen
a sour troop of soup de jour caricatures
pour speed amalgamate enamel
and covered nougat over malleable minds
that imagine hardcore lemonade cosmetics
bookworm birddogs and the acrid shred chromosomes
of inebriated ailing G-men in drag
who try to evade petty arrest and the icy waste fanfare
of Serengeti street bands playing sequoia Swahili music
to exonerate the czarina caught in an adult truncheon noose
before it amasses into a viral spiral peer project
owing dent dissection by a demon ape’s interposed sneers
on a mayonnaise jar in Pisa

it only took a sniper shot at a yacht to designate
the settlement of a values meltdown
and watch America fall on her own sword of sorrows