Oscar Night Poem

THE FLOOD WILL LIFT THE GHOSTS FROM

THE HOLLYWOOD LAWN CEMETERY AND

THEY WILL DISAPPEAR LIKE ETHER IN THE

NEW DEAD AIR. ALL THE NAMES WILL BE

ERASED FROM THE BILLBOARDS AND THE

THEATRES AND THE PIERS AND THE

MAGAZINES AND THE MONUMENTS.

YOU LIVE BY MYTHS OF IMMORTALITY,

AND YOUR MYTHS ARE NOT SAFE.

A Scottish artist/poet with the ironic movie-star name of Robert Montgomery has been pasting his poems illegally over billboards in Britain. They tend to have an ecological/anti-capitalist philosophy along with biblical/prophetic language. I like this one a lot.

Image and story nicked from The Independent.