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4 Lifehacks that’ll change your day

Huffington Post on Theresa May.

3 girls pretending to play,

in the water outside Bombay.

 

The lifehacks don’t work

and the article lies,

but they got bold headlines

so they capture your eyes.

The picture in the lake,

took a long time making,

cos the poses they strike

take a long time faking.

 

Take a cigarette, start rolling,

get ready for some  

Facebook scrolling.

 

Don’t get me wrong,

I wanna hear what you say,

but Facebook’s a flat line,

where everyone stays.

 

Everyone reducing their views,

to a 10 word status,

and it’s treated like news.

And by my own admission,

I’ve signed a petition,

cos it affirmed what I

thought that I knew.

 

More people desperate

on being what they see,

than becoming the person

that THEY want to be.

 

There’s no space to mould

your mind or learn

something new,

or need to yearn

for what’s actually true.

It’s a distraction,

a playground,

with factions of friends,

screaming as individuals

but still following trends.

 

Maybe I’m jaded,

I am feeling faded

Like my brain is folding,

I gotta stop Facebook scrolling.

 

Cos this s**t hit me too,

I throw up my poems

but delete the ones

without views.

A lack of success,

shouldn’t rob the joy,

from the process.

But I sat there thinking

its worthless.

 

So no more to that,

now I shout in a mic,

but I do it for me

and not for the likes.

Author's Note

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