Progress and Alienation

Mike Essig
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readJun 16, 2017
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In such a short interval,
such a strange world.

People mostly just
want to keep living,
order up some take out,
and silently play
alone on their phones.

All their sibylline,
coruscant impulses
dissipated in the digital,
intimacy and desire
scattered and dispersed.

Bland brands selling
themselves to themselves.

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Mike Essig
Poets Unlimited

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.