“Boomers”

a poem

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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