Cliff Wise
Nov 5 · 1 min read
Photo Jens Johnson

SOCIAL ANXIETY

A crowd gathering

Club clique

Party group

Probably the most

Contrived artificial

Regurgitation of

Life in the trees

We can come up with

Harkening back

To a simpler time

When we were

All together in

Small cogent

Family groups

Tribes communities

Gaggles pods

Eating free fruit

Nude

Our empty creation

Is now something

To be feared

The social thing

Not all are good at

We outsiders cringe

And don’t know why

Fear anticipate

It’s a thing

We have to do

After all we are

Social beings

We have to congregate

To feel like us

In our fake party halls

Living rooms

On terraces and lawns

Built for these

Absurd repetitions

Of acting and

Trivial communication

I mean really

Everyone knows

The weather stinks

OK now that I’m

Better than everybody

Time to get dressed

And go

    Cliff Wise

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    Book series - Anxiety is not Depression ‘Bring Order to the Chaos’, ‘Daily Reader’, ‘Questions and Answers’. The view from the inside about these disorders.

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