“Boomers”
Mar 5, 2025
a poem
Boomers
a most spectacular*/ generation
deaf, mute, blind to their real/ alienation
so deaf, mute, blind to their/ collaboration
clinging now with mawkish/ determination
to a past of storied/ imagination
fashioned from/ appropriation
by some marketing/ corporation
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*Re. The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord (1967 — in France): most succinctly, ‘the spectacle’ = mediated life