High Altitude

sumayyahsaidso (64)in #poetry • 8 years ago

This poem originally appeared on Sumayyah Said So.

we only take ourselves seriously
with our
real life degrees and armchair scholarships
and pre-planned acts of revolutionary love
when we march for a media of them by them
and leave ourselves
in the dust
we are
connoisseurs of shame
consumers of epic fail lol
uploading vicious bits of others’ misery
where they will live
forever
in infamy
just to get thousands of hits by our names
we eschew the usual path of deviation
in favor of everything we think is new
reinventing the reinvention
overdoing the overdone
we have excess in our access to instant gratification
yet still we seek
a higher high
no longer wondering
what happens
should we lose our balance
and
plummet
back to ordinary flair
waiting
for the next big thing
to make the rounds