Everybody Is Somebody (In Detention)

Everybody is somebody.

Everybody is expected to be somebody.

Everybody expects you to be somebody.

Same.

Similar.

Different.

Fine line:

recognition,

detection,

rejection.

Detention.

 

©SvetkaSamizdat

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Fellow Traveler (aka Outsider’s Downward Spiral)

I too am an outsider,

apart from the clique.

I too am a Fellow Traveler,

riven by angst,

rejection,

pain,

dejection:

what good deep thinking

and best intentions

in this shallow world?

… We try,

we really try,

and we die.

Futility engulfs,

hearts and minds sneer. …

Misunderstood,

scorned, we retreat,

inevitable defeat,

we despair:

base, self-centred adversaries

always seem

to ace.

 

©SvetkaSamizdat

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Dubious Rewards

I am so tired,

drained and depleted,

by the gimmicks,

complications and catches,

global capitalism throws my way.

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Loyalty program?

Yeah, as if!

(Thought and movement control,

totalitarianism today…)

 

©SvetkaSamizdat

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Cold Journey

Fellow traveler

got lost somewhere along the way.

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Marginalized,

misinterpreted,

persecuted,

misunderstood.

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More than anything,

I “just” wanted the world

to be

a better place.

 

©SvetkaSamizdat

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