“Irony displaced the guitar hero”- Steven Taylor

irony displaced the guitar hero
in the science project of youth
beakers and glass tubes are fragile
but the cd player is a fortress
with millions of identifiers inside
and articulate definitions of ‘the man’
cut out of economic backgrounds
when black eye shadow was in fashion
paler and paler grew the horses
riding straight for the women and children
shooting through us like cold war ghosts
under the desk is the safest place
how amusing it is – to be in an epic
and gone in a minute