Manufactured Messages

You told us a truth.

You didn’t want us to

Become mindless consumers.

You didn’t want us to

Buy into manufactured

Messages.

 

But we’ve been

(Beaten into submission)

Brought up

To value conformity

And we can’t find the

Newness in our

Uniformed thinking.

 

Which came first

She asked

Choking on her pursed lips,

The subculture or style?

 

And I let out a cry

(Because words are difficult)

And sold my soul

To an explanation.

 

Originality is a myth.

Reviews

[Collette Paige]

The struggle to be you with all these manufactured things like computers, T.V and other things taking ideas from other people. And you, in turn, take ideas from them. no orginality.
So true, and a wonderful poem