Sep 2017
Use canned spaghetti as thread to stitch together the frayed edge of your t-shirt. Use your t-shirt to show how you’re the coolest most-hippest, most up with the kids kid there is. Where’d you get that shirt? Online.
Bop your head to the music so they know you know this song. Harder or they won’t see you. That’s not hard enough. Neck snap! Yeah, right there. Hold still while I take a photo. Do you mind if I make this my cover photo?
Take a selfie of you crying in the bathroom and hashtag it. Snapchat it to your local MP so they know how you feel - be sure to use an emoji. #studentdebt Tears streaming down your face. (If it’s a hashtag it’s easier to emotionally process.) #policebrutality #throwbackthursday #massincaceration It’s a good thing there’s emojis for black people now. Look at how far we’ve come!
#nomakeup #vegan #crueltyfree #childslavelabour #iwokeuplikethis #campusrape #notallmen #yesallwomen #freethenipple #2k16 #mentalhealthcuts #stopkillingtranswomen #waterislife #standwithstandingrock
Have you followed Human Rights on Facebook? It’s the only way to get them. Have you seen the Ted Talk about it? In just 20 minutes you’ll know everything there is know about it.
Sorry. You don’t seem like you’re focused. You’re thirsty? Let me make you a smoothie.
I’ll put the chocolate bar in the blender whole, leave the wrapper on. Taste the tinfoil and the plastic. Eat the barcode, become the product. That’s modern life.
Don’t take out the hair or the fingernail or the Band-Aid. Don’t hide from the human components of the production line that made this Kit-Kat possible for you, kid. That’s modern life.
Go to the voting booth, refuse to choose between the diversity of 50 versions of the same smiling white man. Scrawl: **** these ******! (have no faith in none of them) That’s modern life.
With jittering teeth and goosebumps, put your toaster in the sink. Overflow it with water. You will only need a fork to get warm. Electrocution is the most economical form of heating. Be Energywise. That’s modern life.
Puff marijuana smoke through the bars into the brown faces of those who were incarcerated for doing what you freely do now. That’s modern life.
Burn your eyes on the screen. But before you do, memorise the 0800 number for the optometrist.
Post your suicide note on YikYak to save paper. No-one likes reading hard copies these days anyways. #papercuts #selfharm
Search for motivation on EBay. If you’re lucky it’ll have free shipping and arrive in 1-5 business days.
Snapchat your friend’s words of encouragement, God knows they’ve seen enough dickpics.
Take a chicken to KFC and tell them you’re sorry.
Get in the cars of the men who yell “Hey baby!”. They’ll be so surprised they wont know what to do next.
Swap your woman-chest with a man-chest and see if your ******* are still illegal.
Drive through town throwing dirt with one hand and seeds in the other. Maybe, if you do it long enough this claustrophobic concrete will be gone.
Bleed on every seat until the government pays for menstrual products.
Train seagulls to throw YOU chips.
**** a woman and a man simultaneously, so that you can be sure everyone knows you’re bisexual.
Blockade inaccessible buildings with piles of wheelchairs.
Grab time by the fabric and rip it, cuz we all know rips look really punk, and all you really are is just some young punk.
Bop your head to the music so they know you know this song. Harder or they won’t see you. That’s not hard enough. Neck snap! Yeah, right there. Hold still while I take a photo. Do you mind if I make this my cover photo?
Take a selfie of you crying in the bathroom and hashtag it. Snapchat it to your local MP so they know how you feel - be sure to use an emoji. #studentdebt Tears streaming down your face. (If it’s a hashtag it’s easier to emotionally process.) #policebrutality #throwbackthursday #massincaceration It’s a good thing there’s emojis for black people now. Look at how far we’ve come!
#nomakeup #vegan #crueltyfree #childslavelabour #iwokeuplikethis #campusrape #notallmen #yesallwomen #freethenipple #2k16 #mentalhealthcuts #stopkillingtranswomen #waterislife #standwithstandingrock
Have you followed Human Rights on Facebook? It’s the only way to get them. Have you seen the Ted Talk about it? In just 20 minutes you’ll know everything there is know about it.
Sorry. You don’t seem like you’re focused. You’re thirsty? Let me make you a smoothie.
I’ll put the chocolate bar in the blender whole, leave the wrapper on. Taste the tinfoil and the plastic. Eat the barcode, become the product. That’s modern life.
Don’t take out the hair or the fingernail or the Band-Aid. Don’t hide from the human components of the production line that made this Kit-Kat possible for you, kid. That’s modern life.
Go to the voting booth, refuse to choose between the diversity of 50 versions of the same smiling white man. Scrawl: **** these ******! (have no faith in none of them) That’s modern life.
With jittering teeth and goosebumps, put your toaster in the sink. Overflow it with water. You will only need a fork to get warm. Electrocution is the most economical form of heating. Be Energywise. That’s modern life.
Puff marijuana smoke through the bars into the brown faces of those who were incarcerated for doing what you freely do now. That’s modern life.
Burn your eyes on the screen. But before you do, memorise the 0800 number for the optometrist.
Post your suicide note on YikYak to save paper. No-one likes reading hard copies these days anyways. #papercuts #selfharm
Search for motivation on EBay. If you’re lucky it’ll have free shipping and arrive in 1-5 business days.
Snapchat your friend’s words of encouragement, God knows they’ve seen enough dickpics.
Take a chicken to KFC and tell them you’re sorry.
Get in the cars of the men who yell “Hey baby!”. They’ll be so surprised they wont know what to do next.
Swap your woman-chest with a man-chest and see if your ******* are still illegal.
Drive through town throwing dirt with one hand and seeds in the other. Maybe, if you do it long enough this claustrophobic concrete will be gone.
Bleed on every seat until the government pays for menstrual products.
Train seagulls to throw YOU chips.
**** a woman and a man simultaneously, so that you can be sure everyone knows you’re bisexual.
Blockade inaccessible buildings with piles of wheelchairs.
Grab time by the fabric and rip it, cuz we all know rips look really punk, and all you really are is just some young punk.
i wrote this last year and i hated that poetry class too
