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I sleep alone

I sleep alone

Under a cloud of advertisements

For appliances, and tridents from

A hit feature called poseidon.

or a lion filled with cotton

For my niece or little cousin

Or I could electrify my tendons

Strengthen ligaments and senses

By chewing a certain gum

That loses flavor in a minute

I could tone my upper body

atone for my sins

Or win free gas for life

While suffering through the painful hits.

Of a generation of high profile

Low life wanabies,

Where *********** is the answer

To every question that they mention

Were taught to shoot first

And **** second.

Taught to **** first

And love never

Taught that being clever

Is irrelevant

******** win the challenge

And every single time any man begins to think about opening his mouth

The same 14 words will always be expected to come and keep coming out.

But they're arranged in a different order

So you see what he's about

And now poetry has been reduced

To a sleuce of woops and shouts.

And if you're different, you get shoved into a closet

Then forcibly ripped out.

And if you're silent, and refuse to join them

Then you become a perpetual annoyance.

Because you don't break noise ordinance

And your vocabulary exceeds vulgarity

And you see clarity amid the horribleness

Tears rain down like ratings

Of movies with soliloquies

when I hear everyone knows the words to baby

And not the national anthem

Not even oh say can you see.

Well I see,

I saw the other day

When with Awe the automatic sliding door

Wouldn't get the **** out of my way.

It's too slow, it doesn't fly like my terrabyte hard drive

filled with illegal archives of repeatedly stolen, masterfully woven, and absolutely real sound bytes of pure golden "music to my ears"

A list of favorite artists, communists and marxists, or completely incoherent mistakes of life made into stardust

That's falls down, or rather up from the heaven-hell

That they created. In the minds, of the mindless self hating teenage generation.

The teens think that their goal is met when thwir beating hearts are filled,

But the only thing that's filled is a millionaires pockets

With parents dollar bills.

But to blame them,

Is to blame the system,

And the rhythems of a nation

And the drive we have within

to beat the rest and always win

Things were always better before or will be better later

Fate has brought us here and still were breathing as a nation.

I know and you know, that what we love

Will slowly **** us

And yet we still trust

Our own infallible unquenchable material lust

That what humanity wants, it will seek out not because it can,because it must.

a rut that we could get out, but we won't because it's what we love.

Eventually, in this or the next century, we'll never need to move, and everyone will be good at everything

In some virtual reality, brought on by some technology. The automatic sliding doors are being replaced with banners for online stores.

We will soon swimming in much less, but we will want much more.

Want clothes that we've become to far to wear

Want jewels made from what's left of our atmosphere

Want technology to block tragedies from reaching our ears.

It might be inevitable, or it might be evitable whatever

The chances of either right now it's probably just an anomaly so please if you would go back to your shopping spree, and see only the things they want you to see.

Just be glad that they still let us have doors

That we can open manually.

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josh-koepp
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Published
Oct 1, 2012
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