Artificial Eden: Disney Land Poem by DM W

Welcome to Disney Land
A children's dream world
A play of illusions
A play of preposterous pirates

The Frontier; Future World;
A microcosmic America
Revelling in celluloid Eden;
In its delights and its Idols;
In its cosy, cartoon delusions;
An escape from the malaise
Of a world in denial
And drowning in confusion.

Welcome to Disney Land:
A refuge from our fallen state
Pseudo paradise - we try in vain to reach
No sense of inner calm:
Just a series of distractions
Mad parades and fireworks.

Phantasmagoria
In the faceless crowds
In the special effects
A deep frozen
Infantile world
Like its creator
Now cryogenized
Mr Walt Disney
Who lies as dead
As a dodo
Embalmed and pacified;
Awaiting resurrection.
Welcome to Disney Land;
A children's dream world;
An artificial simulation;
A theme park hyper reality;
Electronically annexed;
Anaesthetising; soulless

A multi media experience:
No guns; no homeless people;
A far cry from the mean streets
Of real, urban America.

But is this really paradise?
Or just papering over the cracks:
The new model for public space
Sanitised, safe and sterile.

These sterile streets
Make me want to weep.
These sterile streets
Are too dead for dreamers:
A scrubbed clean replica
Of Main Street America.