"Anti-social Conditioning"

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I bask in what you would term mediocrity

the more leisure time the merrier.

I'll accept this place in life laid back and chill

not worried about the future

subdued by pills.

I'll let out a carefree me

albeit disgraced.

I shouldn't have to be proactive -

to plead for things I should have and need

while the rat race

endless anyway

begs you to increase the pace

just to live in a world

none of us chooses to embrace.

It's kind of hard to love yourself

when your identity is more than your name

when the only thing each of us has

are thoughts...

be they of our fleeting successes

or of our grandest failures

or what could have been ...

or of our childhoods however bleak

which were the only periods of promise

with the worlds at our feet.

Come into this world with something to prove

and if it's a self-fulfilling and calculated goal

it passes muster for a calling

even if you're an ass@@le.

Even when God's lost souls

whom you deem pretenders

have to try harder

just to swallow their pride to get by

can't keep silent and suck it up

suck it down for good

spit in your face

you find it appalling that they would.

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