MIRRORED WINDOWS

Quietly crash through the under-washed mirrored windows and sit in the corner; we watch. Advertisers, two, one speaks, one repeats; they speak and repeat to uncountables. Purposes are explained, reasons are questioned, talk happens, hands are shaken from person to person, smiles are faked, souls are locked outside with the coffee and women. The speaker sees a hole.

The man with the power is the hole; he is weak, he is hated, he is crushed with friendly laughter, he loses. The advertisers can do their advert. He will appear, he will eat from the toilet after it has been splattered then cleaned - that is how strongly he has to pretend to believe in Product. Product is like all other Product: it can be sold, but only a weak man would use it as a defence between his mouth and the runny faeces of a fatter member of the same sex. Excuse is sought. Excuse is unlike all other Excuse: it may not be laughed at disbelievingly, yet allowed - this will not happen. If Excuse were to be anything other than unquestionable, weakness would be pulled to breaking point, break is the end, there is no comeback from break; weakness will break soon - this much is inevitable - but it must not happen because of a less than Excuse.

Product beats Excuse, weakness is stretched but doesn't have a beautiful deathly saviour, weakness is toy of Product; advertisers, two, one speaks, one repeats, work with uncountables to play with weakness with Product. Weakness sits, smiling as eyes dart looking for Excuse, hoping Product hasn't really beaten Excuse, hoping advertisers, two, one speaks, one repeats, and uncountables don't have an unspoken alliance; weakness is wrong is wrong. There is no Excuse, Product, advertisers, two, one speaks, one repeats, and uncountables, all are raining down on weakness, drumming on the thin stretched film of weakness, but saving the break until after.

Weakness cannot show weakness, even though all know. Weakness cannot cry: crying would be the end of weakness, and weakness, although resigned to his fate, is working at delay rather than survival. Weakness is crushed from all sides, is driven by contrary motives, would like to cry but can't. Weakness must help Product, even though Product attacks weakness; weakness would like to find Excuse (which can't be found) even though this would hurt Product. If weakness found Excuse and hurt Product, weakness might, might, be stronger, even though Product's hurt would become manifest in weakness. Weakness quits darting for Excuse when only the pained less than Excuse can be found. Poor weakness.

Everything is wrong. Weakness can only hope to sustain the status quo until Product is free and then be crushed from all sides. Product will feed off weakness, advertisers, two, and uncountables will push Product to feed off weakness. Weakness will break, will die.