Poetry is something
Teenagers do
And music
By the famous
Acting is
For the box office
Painting is
For kids in school
Even better: preschool
Art is an indulgence
A frivolous privilege
Or a drug for
mindlessness
And consumeristic
entertainment
How far…
Have we fallen
To treat art as such
As trite and pretty
As commodity
As fantasy
And nothing more
All this
As we search for meaning
In numbers and theory
As we fix
A hollow world
By filling it
With wires
Code and data
We run
And buy
And calculate
From the meaninglessness
That eats us up inside
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