Identity Crisis

 

Our country's search for a model can be likened to
            a no-fans society's.
"Who's your favorite artist," is a common question
among a people who don't share a common idol.
What does it matter; as if one's posterboy or girl
would put our ordinary plains on higher media
levels, onto personality pedestals seemingly
            necessary
in a slumbook culture of identity fears or crises.

Now, what's a fave but a sort of alter ego? Or
a reference for one's hopes, or a representative
of the voice we'd intend for ourselves, qua
managers of our own projections to a street
            audience.

That's not our problem, really. Entropy starts
when the eternity of self-identifications by way
of poster credentials involving hyped-up false
people, say, in offices, results in the failure of
self-understandings in all; producing nothing

but the news that what we want to become
is ofen oblique to what we're becoming.

 

 

 

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