Audiences of paper cutouts,
inflated importance flailing,
every clap and cheer automated
to follow the whims of the creator;
clap clap cheer clap
clap clap sheer 
– lunacy;

(clap clap cheer clap)

latex dolls, inflatable joys,
toys that speak in unknown tongues
a rope to safer shores;

(clap clap cheer clap)

silent confession booths
hierarchical and patriarchal,
we went hand in hand
faithless and unbound,
clapping all the way;

(clap clap cheer clap)

we barked at the moon,
until you began 
your moaning intonation 
— of deflation. 

(clap)