The cool kids are adults today 

They are contemporary av artists and gay 

They have perfectly curated Instagrams

They host cutting edge poetry slams

Curators and taste makers they say 

Sensitive and spiritual in a sensually creative way 

They are called creatives, storytellers and archivists 

Use their cultural capital to make adverts today 

Their creativity is sponsored by billionaires hooray 

Captivating work to sell shoes, 

Joggers, alcohol, energy drinks

All this pay for play 

Points to the decay 

Community care lost along the way 

Return to normal is the order of the day 

Extract, exploit, deny, theft and underpay 

Mere obstacles in the way

Empty artisty stuff

That's the new cool kid way 

Will I get my art shared

If I don't obey? 

Offer myself up as institutional prey 

And if I don't conceal my rage? 

Will I get paid today? 

Offered that artist in residence stay today?

Will my play get played today? 

Because even the unconventional things are done in a conventional way 

What's beyond a fringe, a fray?