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Justin Bieber Wearing $10k Nike Yeezys

Fiercer competition   keeps coming at

           us, one after another—

It’s exhau

 

sting. People are tired out

Tired of cliches ... 

  the only thing to do is find the gem

in a cliche ... That way you can make a cliche cool

 

Realized that today:

 

The coolest shit is to be found inside 

cliches since most stuff has

Been done already,

 

            sinking 

into the morass. This poem 

Sucked at first so I        chopped it up

                 randomly—added this part about lounging 

      in bed reading The Elemen

                tary Particles

 

Superstars walking toward a car,

Everybody obse

      ssed with the wrong things

by “ever

      ybody” I mean me.

 

You can’t speak for

anyone but yourself, nothing  

Else makes sense; there is no  

reaching for the “we” & trying to own it ...

 

Reading Is for the Rich

the only ppl who read
anymore are
the wealthy when 
     they’re on vacations, on beaches 
they say it’s cuz of the phones: we’re all stuck in them


                  this includes kids especially
                  who don’t get any
                  pleasure out of it


           this includes adults!


                    who would rather watch foo-


      watch football


              this includes eve
                ryone who spends hrs &
         hrs streaming 
             shit, like there’s nothing 
        else to do: reality 
                  show 
                 after 
                    reality 
              show
                   after re
         ality 
           show


it’s add
ictive; 
give it


     who can hear 
                    me? who’s
            listening


      there’s always something new to say


it’s hard to tell
what ppl care
about; almost 
impossible to figure

  
                 the rain,
                 the weather,
                 the seasons,
                 CO2,
                 fluo
                 ride in the H20,
                IQ,
                 inflammatory
                remarks

   
   ??


             can’t comprehend it;


     can’t even laugh at it
       we’ve been
         lost in a cycle—we’re dooming our
     selves—did Cormac McCarthy really
 decide the evil is too strong 
            for the good ?

 


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