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“Power floats like money, like language, like theory.” -J. Baudrillard

At the Super-

Market,

Security cameras monitor the baby food, coordinated by flavor, 

Moss-green-aesthetic

Labels the mashed peas, taunts A palate

Fixed to asses pill zest 

& energy drinks 

& human organ excretion.

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Data gathered from surveillance

Promoted Foucault’s panopticon 

To watch Jean Valjean’s pantomimes 

From dusk till dawn. Profits plummeted, 

$$$$$$$$

$$

Recommended

Save face syndrome

Will protect consumers 

From themselves.

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Setting forth a surveillance 

Constructed by media factions,

That encouraged its users 

To flaunt their self-monitoring 

As a fashion:

(filter-focused-flesh-fish-eyed-frown)

(bedroom-ballroom-ball-gown-breakdown)

(makeup-manger-manager-muscle)

(two-tone-tutu-text-technicolored)

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Simulation montage scrolls along the screen. 

World behavior shrunk to quick buck criteria.

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Hand-eye coordination results in abuse

Bet it,

Finger points,

Or thumbs pushing the replica 

Up

Down…

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Users see themselves in the ordinary 

And that’s worth watching.

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