litmus test

Life as real as TV broadcasts pleonasm Trendy narcissism speaks louder than quiet thrift store scrutiny For what initially seemed empowering, naïve followers multiplied And trailed after goods that advertised the millennium Believing the other side was green Reality was blown into little pieces Walking the soul, like the dog Gentrifying the neighborhood the same Puffed smoke from their cigarettes between channels Routing their threaded profile towards achievements With billboard poise, wife beater tee shows muscle Sweatshop grief mutely endures Capped-tooth smiles disguise two-piece vanity in show tune happiness through Psychic sex phone cords, installing that lost kindergarten confidence in the receiver Greened pupils watch love ignite orgasms as Duty merely genuflects Reggae twists lock into peepholes of ecstasy Holding open their orifices As silver-plated rings gleam turning fingers Into malignant sticks doused in stardust Painted spirit is peeling at the ends of moral weight Hidden between sheets of acidity

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