Superhuman Stateless Senior (SSS)

 

I kind of envy your virtual disgust for fame even while we think you
despicable for your virtual disdain for opinion. How to paint this picture:

you're old now, I'm still pretty much young, I got a bottle of cologne and
you've got the smell of inedible, rotting yam. Mr. Nameless, that's not

even apt. Are you a plant ready to be made into fertilizer? And d'you
                take
a bath? Do you listen to detergent ads on a neighbor's TV's broad-
                casts?

Where do you live, in a house? I inherited one, complete with a mouse.
You are a rat. Pity you should be joining a beggars' syndicate. From
                bus

windows we see you homeless as a garbage cat. But I kind of envy
                your
virtual nine lives in the cold even as we virtually hope you'll die now in a

mirage of food. How is this? You're nothing, I'm still pretty much young.
                I
have a new pair of working-class denims while you're looking like

someone from some dead boomtown. Oh now, how do we finish this
verse! With a thud, with a rhyme? I know. I can look away and start

another poem. But, by the way, I just might pass this way again. Your
name, please? Oh, I forgot, we don't give a fart. And you gotta piss.

How many more rhymes will be written about you before you frigging
                die!

 

 

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This poem was inspired by another piece by Edith Tiempo, titled Nameless.

 

 

 

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