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They say if you find a job you love you’ll never work a day in your life
they also say that not everyone can work a job they love
so you have to work hard to get that job
and work hard to keep that job.

They forgot to mention that you working is what makes them happy
because they’re in a competition revolving around manipulation and indoctrination
to see who can exploit the most labor.

They say if you’re good at something you should never do it for free
because that’s the kind of society they want us to live in.
Hundreds of shipping containers fall into the ocean every year
filled with all sorts of ill fated products
oil, jewelry, guns, and people
all drift to the bottom and lay on the floor
weighing the world down with waste
until it’s our own padlocked shipping container
carrying our weight around in circles.
I stood up for myself then you stood up for yourself
making it clear we weren’t standing for each other

standing at the precipice
of precipitating loneliness

through a renaissance of reconnaissance
we recognized differences irreconcilable.
Andrew Rueter Sep 23
You went too far
You went too fast
you went too hard
it couldn’t last
and now you’ve passed
the memory that lasts
is how you crashed.

Now you’ve gone out of sight and out of mind
due to the odds-based blight that plagues mankind
and I wonder if it’s my right to question why
you were the type to lose your time.

The odds were considerably low
but they weren’t just for show
and took 100% of your life
we cried 100% of the night
but then the sun came up
and we went out to test our luck.
Andrew Rueter Sep 22
Trapped in a bubble formed by a drowning man
Your frequency made me start trembling violently
until I imploded into a burst of light.
Another season has passed
I’ve avoided relegation yet again
but I’m nowhere near Champions League.
One day I’ll cross into the box
and nobody will be there.
We’re drowning in internet people
who’re usually live-in-regret people
saying, “get in the net people”
so we can easily dissect people
into the right or the left people
until discourse is dead people
and the rest of us have to wade through the filth
of the loudest cretins looking for attention to milk
making the world seem full of their tedious ilk
cascading complaining onto our heads like it’s raining
with conversations unproductive but instead draining
using inflammatory words that has our rhetoric straining
to survive the constant bickering and blaming
when this country starts aiming
to cater to the most toxic aspect of our culture
because internet people amplify messaging best
so we reward obnoxious grifters and vultures
politicians cracked the code but failed the test
becoming internet people, just better dressed.
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