By Nadia Irshād
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Cultures die under pressure
the pressure of a heavy foot on a long neck
this foot is images
What a strange thought
to spend the few minutes we have here setting a stage
hoarding things, living for an app
marketing a delusion, an artificial landscape
Clownery, imbecilic,
there is such a thing don't tell me there isn't
keep your nonsensical foolery, buffoonery
living without a thread of authenticity
obsessed with trivial things like posting
what in your mind seems worth boasting
streaming reeling social media
Have you never ever met dignity?
integrity?
your heart is a fish out of water
flapping about on the deck of this boat
separated from its essence
your (non)secret is you drug yourself
tranquilizers for an ounce of peace
it all comes to an end, soon enough,
carry on,
here, take some more clown paint
While our eyes are on the horizon
as we all are pushed out along at sea
you are admiring a screen
skewed mirrors, that sing
it's on trend
This is all absurd.