CONTEMPORARY HUMAN
I'm a free loving monogamist stuck in this reality glitch.
Living in a world that's nonstop black ops
and meme coin token airdrops.
Inside I’m wild,
but I fit neatly inside a digital file.
I'll never die because my soul is codified,
supercomputed and heavily distributed.
Backed up in shards I don’t control,
But still expected to be whole.
Supercharged and energy drained,
I’ve got a high bandwidth life
and a low attention brain.
I’m individually wrapped, mass produced,
and stuck inside an infinite subscription loop.
My soul is tracked, surveilled,
and available for commercial sale.
The algorithm knows me better than my friends do,
And my ads predict what I’m about to feel, too.
Custom identity, standard frame,
unique pain, and recycled shame.
I’m a privacy advocate with a smart device;
I say “Don’t watch me” and then click “agree” twice.
I meditate with notifications on,
seeking silence through sponsored calm.
I’m online,
off banks,
and on nootropics.
I eat organic, think synthetic,
dream analog, and live electric.
I’m a He/She/They
That likes sex in superposition,
with recorded consensus inside audited systems.
I’m locally globalized,
with hash-encrypted game,
a username and no shame.
I own my keys, but lease my life,
and pay a monthly fee for freedom
at a premium subscription price.
I’m crowdsourced, outsourced,
and deeply individualized.
I think small,
but cover the fee
to dream in supersize.
I’m spiritually curious, materially taxed,
I believe in meaning but trust the math.
I’m long on hope, short on sleep,
Wide awake in a world afraid of the deep.
I’m immortal onchain,
exhausted in skin,
Uploading forever,
buffering within.
I want to disconnect,
but I’m scared of the quiet.
I want to belong,
but I won’t comply with it.
You can’t shut me up.
You can’t dumb me down.
I’m compressed, encrypted, trying to survive,
Uploaded online and flagged as alive.
I’m fully updated, but still out of sync,
I refresh my feed but forget to think.
I’m burned, hashed, downloaded, and streamed;
A contemporary human
seeking consensus
inside the machine.