Welcome to the age of Imagination. Empty storefronts all across the nation waiting to be fucked with. Nightlife is stagnant, stale like old chips. Children can transform into anything and everything amidst our limitless abyss, which seems far from hopeless, but hopeless they live. The American Dream is officially dead. Everything is changing and yet the value of tradition stays the same. Evolution is looking us right in the face but we’re blind to this kind of change.
The good, the evil, the power! I'd say we're addicted to all of it. If you look around you can see the kids are dying by their own hands and their streets are full of poison. Who puts it out for them? And why are they so excited? Maybe that's ignorant. Because are they? Excited to be dying? They can't be, but they are dying. Crying too, pleading screaming for mercy from their creator. People are unhappy, and they have been for so long. There's statistics on statistics on statistics. People are mentally sick. Are we truly trying to change this? Our solutions are weak, and we can blame it on the big bad government forever, but what the fuck happened to loving your neighbor? I'm not a Christian, I don't believe in him exactly, but I do believe in something, I'm a soulful being. A human being, as are you. So imagine all the people sharing all the world. Practice what you preach. Fuck hypocrisy! Imagine truth set free!
We write the times. I could lie and say we're fine but I like imagining things differently. I like imagining myself fighting. I think we should all imagine things differently, how else will we escape this reality before dying without actually dying? Fake it till you make it has always been my least favorite thing, and I assure you that's not the same as imagining. Imagining you don't fake anything, you're simply dreaming awake. You don't need to fake anything, it's only for you to believe.
So believe it.
Moon Ink is a short form newspaper
small but BOLD
Covering local Poetry, Punk, and Art
Written in the form of Verse Journalism, a term coined by Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks, who described this technique as “poet as fly on the wall ... poet as all-seeing eye.”
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