Titanic
The box office proves that we care about this ship
with all its romance, conflict, death
and glib social portraits
of hearty working class mates,
who jig between hot-bowel shifts
with a cheery twitch in the eye,
while a stray suicidal beauty
escapes her cage of wealth
to sniff out some young poor artist on heat.Her features are so porcelain
it's easy to paint her with swift slabs of colour
while she stretches in an indigo seam of light
with eyes as brilliant as nuggets of frozen sea.He flickers across her skin like a lick of wave.
A sinker-like jewel lures them to their fate.The Titanic attracts with exquisite myths -
cursed mummies, lost treasure
stowaways, a sister ship,
corruption and intrigue.
Still search for explanations
for why the unsinkable sank -
not believing that incompetence and greed
is all that it ever takes.
