i feel a budding urgency
to fight back as i see the curmudgeon emerge in me
diminishing common courtesy and interpersonal skills
not quite an emergency yet
but i can see it’s not brain surgery
to walk around feeling like the whole world’s serpentine
chip on the shoulder might fit like a glove
it’s a piece of cake to hate, it takes work to love
and therein lies the rub
that internalized lifestyle of living in a rush
knee jerk jerks shirk the hard work and get worse
at judging worth, now they claim that everything is dirt
from some digital porch
i can yell at a cloud, raise a torch and pitchfork
poor sport with a keyboard, connection, and boredom
who moves so fast he blows past the post mortem
i can feel myself slipping
under the undertow of rank individualism
swimming in cynicism
i can still see the shore. giving in is not a given
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Shout-out to Boulder public library. There's a lot of... progressive...things here....I may not agree with all of them, but I do believe every human being deserves a place to be accepted. Was it Einstein that was quoted as saying, " Smart motherfuckers, sound like dumb motherfuckers, to stupid motherfuckers." or was that a meme? Those books were House of Leaves, Infinite Jest, & obviously the Holy Bible. Anyways, what up Ireland 🇮🇪 𝕍 𝕚 𝕣 𝕘 𝕠 ♕ 𝕍 𝕒 𝕟 𝕕 𝕒 𝕝