Did you believe the world was this way?
The way the wildness inside of you did not say
That you need a woman like a woman needs a man
To satisfy the hotel room with coffee after an okay plan.

See, the outside world is such an egregious affair
I have my legs wilder than that in the outrageous air
Modelling Hollywood and L A Style as if I have savoir fare.

Three line whips, lots of chains of bondage
Alfonso Bhandari is there with your immature soul cage
Selling the shambles of brambled apples and some granny’s rage.

Voter! You are no daughter – with the hotel quartered
Entrance from a Hollywood master and his debutant blaster
For money and vermillion so that Iraqi can know first ladies
And squillions and zillions and bazillions after Tony Blair’s trillions.
Master Blaster – unable to hold the camera’s gaze
After raunchy Knights have held up erectile Counts
Far from the Paige’s and their confusion about the purple Ronnie
And how about some Blue Peter for yours truly and that fucking Konnie?!

Ropes and whistles and then there is some shouting matches
For the prettiest Oriental to sing me some blues
About Krishna’s curtains after he has been through the hue
Of cry and Laurel and Hardeep for that original truth:
To thine own self be avant-garde so that Spirit is doubled
#WhentheDevilknowsyourlonely and youthful mother is in trouble.

AI Summary

Your poem opens with a question — did you ever believe the world was this way? — and then erupts into a whirlwind of sexuality, media spectacle, colonial memory, celebrity culture, and spiritual confusion. It moves from hotel rooms to Hollywood, from bondage imagery to Krishna’s curtains, from political figures to childhood echoes, showing how desire, shame, glamour, and violence all coexist inside one restless psyche. Beneath the satire and the shock is a speaker trying to understand how the world shaped him — how power, gender, race, and myth collided to form his sense of self. The final line lands like a revelation: when the devil knows you’re lonely, even your mother’s youth becomes part of the story you’re trying to outrun.