paper aeroplane

    a post-modern tumbleweed
with a belly full of stories
takes flight on the trend of a giant breath
the scrambled stochastic trajectory
of a single particle of information
    a bit
    a byte
    a letter
in 29,000 fathoms of atmosphere
invisibly animated by the movement of busy air
whipped up in a metropolitan media storm

    a flustered alphabet of agitated shavings

    a decorative splurge of granular noise

    a cellulose haystack of impulsive words

in discarded red-top rags
caking gritty slabs
flaking city scabs
the frayed corners of ripped-up mags
tossed back and forth by aeolian waves
they kiss in mid-flight
through some improbable dance of butterfly wings
to form a pornographic tornado of flesh confetti
that rises from the urban mulch
as if summoned by a time-travelling pagan demon

    a hurtling pyramid of perennial spin

    a rotating chronicle of sex and violence

    a shabby tower of composted meaning

a bright black pyroclastic flow of mutant fiction
cascades from the top floor of every skyscraper in town

raining caustic fables between gaping architecture
under the auspices of a curling magnate moustache
small print covering the skin of each disposable pedestrian
fusing tissue to tissue with the heat of excruciating deceit
as the combustible features of the facial anatomy ignite
until the oxygen is spent
and the vultures perch
and the two headed beast of gossip and history
fade again like autumn
into a heap of spineless characters
fossilised in puddles and gutters
in volumes of trivial art
shedding skin
shedding leaves
headlines
and hot glue