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#sensationalism
Every surface Every hour Any symptoms? Out of water Out of masks Any victims? He's out there A media darling Time to panic? Play it safe, okay Just don't give in To the hype Even if he is "Hosting" Saturday Night Live This week
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Mar 8, 2020
Mar 8, 2020 at 11:07 AM UTC
The Boogyman
As with everything else in American life, the national government is just another commodity packaged for mass consumption. We're all being spoon fed a spectacular narrative which by its very nature is designed to evoke the passions. Every day, someone gets on TV and says or does something which provokes outrage, drawing the viewer in like the iridescent lure of an angler fish, and keeping them hooked just long enough for the hypnotic messages of the corporate sponsors to burrow their way into the collective consciousness between "newscasts." It is precisely for this reason that these frivolous displays SELL like hotcakes. There's no government going on here. There hasn't been for who knows how long? All that is left is BUSINESS. Raw and unfettered. The United States of America is now nothing more than a 'reality' show, and boy, I tells ya, the revenue stream is OH, SO LUCRATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Feb 7, 2019
Feb 7, 2019 at 12:13 AM UTC
Debord and Baudrillard Were Right (DISCLAIMER: NOT A POEM)
There I stood, a mere ghost in the wind For 20 years of existence My mothers love, a familiar thing to everyone but me In the fall I recall the slaughter of 12 Coloradans And the demon we made into a god I remember the punch lines and funny signs mocking our early dead I decided that I would find a way to go out with a bigger bang And a larger body count, to make three times the fans All the love and sympathy Something she'd never given me She would be the first and then I'd see how many more I get Before they finally caught up with me And freed me from my misery And in the end you'll have no choice But to forever remember me Sensationalist media Will make me a celebrity.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 1:52 PM UTC
Celebrity Shooter
SENSATIONALISM       catches your EYE      busted to the eXTREME      got ya
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Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014 at 10:28 PM UTC
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