Inside Andy Warhol's Tomb
fame (seeking new bodies to possess),
is the restless tenant.
Warhol has always stayed dead,
save for his tongue, pink banner
that watches over our world,
a sad, endless mouthing of the words
'I told you so'
Like a sickening and a dying
that go on forever
II
life peels the serpentine lime
light, and, in the voice of a surgeon, probes,
what time is it?
the answer lies scribbled
on all the headstones
that have come to find homes
in all of the world's burying places:
fifteen minutes past
fame. same as saying
it’s the next dreamer's turn.
The banner over us all,
remains nostalgia.
- Tolu Ogunlesi