O this is good Christina. You're back on form with lendings from your visual
artist side. Excellent poem.
bw
James
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Sub: Photoshop: Lindey England (new draft)
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:00:12 EDT
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> Photoshop: Lindey England
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> Zooming in on the shot of the nice girl
> like the girl next door, I see head and shoulders
> and she's smiling until magnification
> makes the twist of her mouth white,
> grey and black pixels, her eyes
> an indecipherable mass of squares.
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> Copy and paste her face over my own
> and she's in our gang, the end of term photo
> before we binned berets and choked
> sucking Senior Service butt-ends
> on the last bus back home.
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> Paste and paste on your wedding photo
> for identical bridesmaids, stiff in satin,
> bride, groom, priest and all the guests
> and you wonder if the photographer
> has the same face and smile.
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> Go back to the original image,
> zoom out to print size, select 'clone tool',
> paste her head on the shoulders of the man
> curled naked at the end of a leash
> she‘s also holding and she's still smiling
> but you can’t sharpen her blurred penis
> in the interests of decency.
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> christina fletcher
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