To jazz outside newtown cinema

The speakers of of the old cinemas defined my childhood.
Define who I am today,
and for what?
Early Hollywood profit.

A place where the women are
Diamonds; bought, sold and cut.
Where dirty men are kings.
Where (dispite popular belief)
we live alone in our shells

That echo only
our own voices

which are everything;
but are worth nothing.

only our qwn reverberated voices keep us sane
and the blood-meat pump
grinds away at the clock
like racists at a coalface
who make jokes about being black.