Is Life a Commodity? ▲ poem by Neonn Felicity (2018)
Channel: Neonn Felicity
Date: 2021-07-16

I wrote this poem to test out my first ever legit microphone setup in 2018, posted it on Soundcloud but not here because there was no video. I recently got a GoPro to capture random moments, so here's that poem with a bonus sunbathing Tuna Bean! 🎃

Is life a commodity?
Or a horizontal inheritance?
It’s apparent their knowledge is ahead of their wisdom here.
They’re not providing a real alternative vision.

We need to rethink many things that we are very used to.
Fuck everything you know!
It’s different now.
They said the wealth would trickle down,

But is it true?
How much evidence do we actually have for this?
It turns out, not much!
But life’s tough, ya better get used to it!

There’s a lot of slop in these figures..
Anomalous shadows..
It’s survival of the slickest
Paying liberal lip service

To ameliorative remediation
And preventative interventions.
They’re poverty apologists
Living well on ill-gotten gains.

It’s a crude philosophy,
A ponzi economy!
The traditional limitations,
Structures of oppression and domination,

It’s all part of one big story,
A lullaby for the treadmill life,
Told to wage slaves in mental graves
By fucking boy scouts!

It’s more of a blinding concept than an illuminating one.
A lot of it is just blocking and tackling in the culture war.
There’s counterrevolutionary inertia
And peripheral amusements,

But the beauty is in the breakdown!
Overthrow the old ways of thinking!
Rebuild the broken temple!
Reality asserts itself!

Our meditative tranquility
Must not ignore their class war crimes!
The sociological imagination
Is absolutely critical in these austere times.