fragments for a very realistic serial drama PT2
5th September 2011
I virtually spend all my time online these days
I virtually spend all my time online these days
i’m not on the brink of despair
there’s no internal mutiny
i’m just at odds with everything around,
the facebook statuses
ALL THE LATEST BANDS!
the hipstermatic/greyscale photos
Of girls with eyes to the ground
or boys with a coy hand in their hair
ALL THE LATEST BANDS!
oh! Throwaway remarks that attempt to rationalise riots.
observations on the breakdown of society
delivered in such hackneyed terms.
witticisms not even funny.
the reviews with embedded clause after embedded clause
and noun phrases that lose perspective
of where we might have been headed.
i wish the whole deal might be shredded
but it’s posted online so we can only dip in
or try to look away, divert ourselves
from whatever people want to do,
whatever identity they wish to post
and cultivate, and flaunt,
and hone.
i just feel, sometimes, there might,
might, be something more
…fuck it.
