There are very few people
who speak the same language anymore
put them in a room and close the door
because everyone else is a puppet
so proud of being a muppet
putting out thoughts
that spread like polka dots
meaningless on their own
but stronger together
if they only paid attention
instead of paying for attention
they’d realize that thoughts aren’t universal
they are individual
but I guess being an individual
has also gone by the wayside
because you need to be seen
you need to be heard
you need to talk with abbreviations for every word
and it’s a traffic jam in the middle
between the one’s who like to follow
and those trying to resist
the next generation can’t be missed
they are speeding down the highway
to join the crowd
turning their ‘music’ up loud
while sipping from the juice box
they just took out for snack after recess
who created this mess
these are the puppets
with a hand in their mouth
and a voice in their ear
it’s only going to get worse
year after year
as I sit here in line
waiting for another voice
to sound like mine.
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well said Paul!:D
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Thanks Christopher!
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Muppets 🙄
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Excellent. If I wrote down each line that I l liked my comment would be as long as your poem. I know I’ve said this before but I REALLY want to hear you rap these lines.
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Haha I don’t think you’d like it as much if I were to rap it.
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But that is frequently your cadence.
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I’m curious now, what was your favourite line in this?
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“But I guess being an individual has gone by the wayside”
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Paul! This is so powerful. I read it three times. I’m sharing it with my friends. *starts slow clap*
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Aw shucks. Thanks Liz! I hope they enjoy it.
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That was really good and horribly true.
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Thanks Isabella!
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WOW. Scarily fashioned and powerfully revealing of our culture.
I found a song called Anti-Conformity a while back and loved it for the reasons you described here; The artist had a voice lile mine! On my WP bio I had “antistereotypical teenager” as one of the first things to describe me for a while. I think I changed it but it might still be there… Hm…
(Anti-Conformity is by Krystal Meyers if you want to look it up.)
To the unique voices trying to heard above the din of monotony!
Squid
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Thanks for the reblog! Glad you liked it. I’ll check out the song later!
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Reblogged this on Squid's Cup of Tea and commented:
Smack-dab in the face of culture comes this poem by a usually-hilarious Canadian pizza-lover named Paul. A great reminder to — actually, go read it and tell me (or him) what you think about it.
To critical thinkers and anticonformists everywhere,
Romans 12:2
Squid
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Thanks for this, Squid. I have a “Not-My-Poetry” category I hope to use this on if he lets me!
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Well said! Just spoke to our daughter in Norway, where she says the saying is “the exposed nail gets hammered down.” Hmmm……. May I post this on my site? It will not show up for a bit.
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Yes you may! Thank you! And I like that saying.
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Paul, you slay. (I had to say it.)
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You bet I do. (Had to say it)
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Bwahaha!
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Very well written Paul and so very true as well.
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Thank you!
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Great poem. I thought for sure you were going to say something about Starbucks!
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Haha that would fit perfectly in the poem!
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