Social Tedium

I say I’m not like them

So therefore I am

I scroll through the scum

So therefore I am

The pastime makes me numb

It makes me feel dumb

I think I am dumb

Come stroll through the wasteland of society

You can fight through the crowds of inanity

See flashy billboards of insanity

Look at image after image of vanity

You’ll see poorly veiled self deprecation

Stage sets of fake lives

Fields of naïvety

Travel agency posters of vacation destinations

Black hole fun

Won’t you come and wash away the pain?

Lives indisposed and posed

Lives disguised in expensive masks

All the while the true nature is better

Their profiles make them lesser

Just be you

Just be happy

I think I’m happy

Oh make me over

Im all I wanna be

A walking study in humanology

Mindless cacophony

Ceaseless monotony

I think I am

Go think for yourself

Stop taking what’s on the shelf

Shut it off— leave it

Go out and live— explore your own mind

Enjoy your own amazing life of little great things

Allow medium to be your comfortable size

Let medium be your medium

If you would

Could— you?

JArtB

November 4, 2021

Inspired by grunge classic songs—

Dumb by Nirvana

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarten

Celebrity Skin by Hole

Would by Alice and Chains