Her words and the images they evoke are contradictory, trite and sophomoric. “Wrecking Ball” with music and lyrics by Stephan Moccio in collaboration with Miley Cyrus, is a poetic jumble. Cyrus has claimed recently that the song and the video are “about much more than [her] naked body.” This is a proposition that can easily be put to the test by stripping away the music and the video, then considering the lyrics as a work of poetry.