#millenial poet

[env0writes]

Almost a third of my way into my thirties Life is flying by faster than a gale or a breeze I’ve spent more of my income than I’ll admit on scented Febreeze Much of my life is made of mundane They say to try again with the same outcome is insane Yet, to practice makes perfect and habits are routine that way I should have more; but be happy with less For how little I own, my room is a mess Me as a homeowner is anyone’s guess Third of my way through my life Married to two jobs but no sign of a wife Too many hobbies, too few children, no house, plenty strife Median age is actually seventy-seven I’m ready for a mid-life crisis, seven minutes in heaven Be in bed three hours before eleven What little money made, is counted in change I’ll never be penniless with luck, oxidized strange Greenhorn from Green Trails, gave it all up – what a Faustian exchange Gone are the thunderclaps, the fireflies, green skies Sirens, like God’s trumpets and lies Both taught me to kneel, on my own had to heal after many a tries Will two-thirds be as favorable Of my thirties and my life, if I am able To endure and live and thrive and love just like Clark Gable

NaNoWriMo Vol. 4, 11.3.24 “Third-Way Thirties”

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[freshpickle]

[wordsbytea]

If I FUCKING KNEW HOW TO SING

my voice would submerge in your blood

and my agony would be shared.

Efforts got you your present

I'm still stuck in between,

And I do know where it all went wrong

yet here I am,

crying to an Olivia Rodrigo song.

My self image is shattered,

as I sweep off the pieces of my broken heart.

The stronger I strive to be,

the weaker I seethe inside

and If I fucking knew how to sing

there would be sweet melodies

about this tragedy.

Disappointed,

are you?

I predicted it all too well in my head.

Only If I fucking knew how to sing

or had a sweet voice

I would scream out your name

but I don't,

So I carve out my own

on this wood

desperate to be known

to be cherished

all in the dire hopes

to get what you got

or to get my own.

I would sing all the melodies

and the anthems they make

to chisel out this envy

and wash out my pain

with the faint hope

to finally deserve.

[redinkquill]

Generational Debt and Expectations

I am furious that older generations got the economy and the environment to this horrible state

And then expect younger generations to fix everything in passing conversation

But do not give us the ability or resources to fix what they broke

Like there is still lead in our water and food

There are forever chemicals in all bodies of water on earth and even in clouds

There are microplastics in everything

The environment is in crisis already and only going to get worse

And all economic data is so cooked that we can’t even acknowledge how fucked the economy is

Younger generations can’t even get educated without falling into massive debt

All of our housing options are out of reach for the majority

Jobs pay a pittance to never allow breathing room

All political leaders are either geriatric or callous and often both

Bribery is legal in the US and it’s not even talked about like it’s a problem that our system is completely corrupt

We don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system that is leveraged to control and oppress normal people by the wealthy

How do our parents expect us to fix and continue the current system when it has completely failed us?

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

When I Was Your Age

Stephen Jay Morris

10/31/23

©Scientific Morality

I don’t mean to be sesquipedalian. However, I do relish the use of vulgar, four-letter words. That's my writing style. Don’t like it? Go somewhere else. Don’t let me waste your time. Okay? No! I aint no keyboard warrior, I am a pen and paper iconoclast. Okay? Okay! Now let’s go to the subject at hand.

We have tepid biases, then we have severe biases. Both are an anathema to the traditional liberals, or so-called “Woke.” You know? Racism, sexism, ablism, agism and many others. Then you have acceptable biases like “Generation gap.” Also, there are geographical biases, astrological biases, and other silly ones, like music criticism, sports bias, etc. Does this sound familiar: “People born under the sign of Pisces are assholes! Most of them live in Florida! What a shitty state that is! Not only do they have criminals, but they have lousy sports teams!” It all sounds hateful and hypercritical, but it is acceptable in society. Just like political bias: “It’s alright to call someone a communist, but you can’t call them a nigger!”

The paleo-conservatives are much too cowardly to use racial epithets, so they use innocuous, acceptable biases like “geographical bias” to cover up their racial hatred and disdain for their political adversaries. Instead of saying, “A city full of niggers that is run by a Democratic city council,” they say, “Chicago.”  Now that the conservative movement is being taken over by the White Nationalist movement, they’re even more at ease using racist terminology.

Today, I want to tackle the subject of the Generation Gap. Every race, creed, or color has had this problem. It is an innocuous bias that has been around since 399 B.C., the days of the ancient Greek philosophers. Quote: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”― Socrates 399 B.C. End Quote. This didn’t just start with the Baby Boomers and their parents in the 60’s.

Every generation has its critics. Why do older people do this? Before I answer that question, let me point out that every individual has their own unique personality. Talking about generational issues, you tend to generalize. People who generalize are too stupid and indolent to elaborate. That is why most racists are stupid. So, why do most older people look down on the younger generation? Because they wish they were young enough to repair their misspent youth. Plus, they resent the better life their children have. Tag it “jealousy!”

Now, what I just said is a gross generalization. That may be true for some, but not all. There are parents who love their children, and those children reciprocate that love.  So, who is “anti-youth?” Mostly, this sentiment comes from the political Right in America! They want all males to be masculine warriors who will protect the ruling class, and all women to be birthing wives to increase the White population. Don’t believe me? Tough shit! Just read the history of any Fascist nation; it’s all the same.

The U.S. political Right wants every male in this country to be a self-reliant, rugged individual. Conservative news website and media company, “The Daily Wire,” makes lots of money from attacking the so-called Left. One of its commentators, Matt Walsh, wears a Fidel Castro beard and is a Millennial who attacks Generation Z. He cited a psychological study that found Gen Z-ers are suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. Matt, being the dumbass he is, did not sympathize with them, stating “they are just spoiled kids.” I get the feeling he never reads any pamphlets published by the Roman Catholic Church. He also stated that he has never experienced a panic attack, so therefore, there is no such thing. Any individual who has this mind set might suffer from psychopathological Narcissism. He has no ability to empathize. I pity his children and his wife.

I am a 69 year-old, Jewish male. Beginning at 11, I grew up having panic attacks. It was embarrassing and frequently occurred in public. These attacks came out of nowhere, not unlike an Epileptic seizure. I got them not because I had Liberal, hippie parents who were lenient with me; As I learned through psychotherapy many years later, it was because my neurons weren’t firing correctly and I had a bio-chemical imbalance in my brain. Matt Walsh thinks with his balls, not his brain.

A major upshot of this modern world is that religion is dying, and science is advancing. So, we must endure schmucks like Walsh until natural causes take hold.

Just remember, the world is getting better and better!

[thatloudnerd]

Inspiration knocked on my door.

[thesmokinpossum]

I never liked Richard Siken poetry but now that the tumblr girlies have taken to posting his tweets on here I know that at least he's also painfully unfunny so there's that

[caffeinebzz]

I do not wish to let this life go to waste

But what of the things that should be done?

They pile up, higher and higher,

They topple over and beg rearrangement.

I'm one person, how could I ever

Put the puzzle together, when it's so many million pieces?

[thegaysciences]

there is literally not a single person in this world who shares my excitement for Limonov trailer. Italian trailer just dropped and it is literally "christmas for russian chronically online millenials who love Ben Whishaw" and I'm the only one person who fits this criteria. Maybe you can share this moment with me?

I still can not believe that creator of one the most popular russian 2010s comedy web series punches Ben in the face, there will also be one the main actors from cringey and cult classic sketch show from 2000s who plays one of the MOST SIGNIFICANT soviet poet, and there is also Ben who awkwardly writes EЛЕНА on the wall with the clumsiness of the letters only the non russian speaker has. And also damn, he didnt have to look so mesmerizing and beautiful as mfkin nazi Limonov with all of his hilarious hairstyles! I will not be able to survive the encounter with this crazy cinematic monster. (my favourite band Shortparis will also be participating as usual but that is whole another story)

I’m sharing this moment with you!!!!! (though not Russian and not millennial)

His Hair!

The punch 🤛 part

The ЕЛЕНА part (tw blood)

[the-consortium]

Dear Fabius

Attached to this letter is a wig cause sometimes...it's nice to imagine what a full head of hear is.

Also, may I have a Konrad clone? I require it for reasons

As a poet, he particularly loves these dark hours. When every light in his quarters is switched off and only the glow of his datapad bathes his face in a bluish light as he feverishly and creatively scribbles line after line.

Now and again one of the maws on his neck twitches and pointed teeth flash wetly, but otherwise it is quiet.

The sudden flash as a message pops up surprises him and makes him tense up in the high of the battle hormones shooting in.

Bellephus stretches his shoulders, opens and closes his jaw a few times to give the tension space. Then he regains his composure and reads the message. Only one person has the clearance to appear immediately with their messages on every datapad on Urum. And that person rarely addresses their Twelfth Millenial brethren directly.

"What?!"

The word is loud in the sleepy silence of the quarters. Next to him, Savona moves and half-opens her eyes, mumbling, "Hrmw?" without quite really waking up yet.

"He wants me to cut his hair!" Bellephus can't quite keep complete amazement and a hint of panic out of his voice now.

Now Narvo is also stirring on his other side, yawning. "Why the fuck are you shouting? We still have a three-hour rest cycle."

"Because the spider wants me to cut his hair short!"

The utter absurdity ensures that both of his partners sit up after all. Savona yawns as demonstratively as she can, but it's just a kind of introductory remark before she says, "Why you?" - "Because I'm the only one here with reasonably short hair." Disbelief falters in Bellephus' voice and the mouths on his throat and neck snap again in irritation at nothing.

Narvo points to his shoulder-length, sleep-tousled hair: "That doesn't count?" - "Apparently not."

Savona pulls a little more of the blanket towards her. More as a show of force than because she's cold. "Why does he want short hair anyway? He hasn't cared about it so far, has he? He lets it grow, it falls out partially with the blight; a stringy status quo establishes itself until the next body." - "Absolutely no idea."

Narvo grins. "Then you should really make an effort and see that you go to him right away!"

Another flash of a new message. Bellephus reads it, then goes "Hah!" in Narvo's direction and says: "But it's you two too!"

Savona takes the datapad. "What's wrong with him right now? Or is he just trying to stress us out?" - "What now?" Narvo sighs with ominous foreboding in his voice.

"We're supposed to fly to the smugglers' station and buy a … I can't believe it … rubber sex doll. A rubber doll that looks like a Night Lord! And have it wrapped as an opulent gift."

Narvo pushes past Bellephus and out of bed, padding on bare feet to the other side of the room, where the three warriors' gear forms an insiders-only organised pile. "Whatever he's planning to do with it - I want to be there! That sounds fantastically bizarre! I don't know who he's trying to insult to the core - but it'll be fun."

Bellephus sinks back once more and declaims to the ceiling: "You're far too easy to amuse, Quin!" - "Slaanesh be praised, eh?"

[lovethatlaiduslow]

sorry babe youre not a tortured poet youre a cringe millenial

[env0writes]

Umber Embers Vol.2, 9.9.23 “All Of Us"

There was a time, where a promise had meaning Where the future was teeming With opportunity There was a morning, bright and shining to see For world, and me To be something more There was a plan, a process, a chore Set to be placed, in a business core Study, work hard, keep your head down Make it four years without slightest frown Then there’s a place for you in our town There was a time, with promise When did times, turn amiss Gone is the time where a wish Could be found Where did that go? Left in the future with nothing to show I was robbed without the dignity Of it being done to my face

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[jahveedap]

Blood On the Old World Ballcourts

The further down in the soil that you go, the Blacker it becomes. The further down in your soul that you look, the blacker your blood runs. Deep down to the oil pipelines, transcontinental arts and arterial. Underneath the Atlantic, stretching from America to Africa, like an umbilical cord. Egypt & Azteca in one accord- By constellations. Nubia and Maya at odds- By tribulations. Ancient battlefields in the home of the gods. From Alpha to Omega we're here before & after time. From Olmec-Xia to Free Mumia. Soil section in need of protection. From Millenial Mandelas to Instagram Bellas. From Mexico City to Malcolm X City, El Shabazz's son's blood creating a flood, a tide to drown out violence with a rushing riverside. Arch eagles of Brown Pride confronted; Pressure applied in New World beefs. Cartel hell, stone temple ruins. Stone Temple Pilots on Tuskegee wings beneath. Incan trinkets and figurines, graveyards turned into latrines. Migrations by the sword of princes of Peru a la strategies of Sun Tzu. Anisazi sunset, passing down a blueprint. Then enters the fray- shackles of Spaniards, as their war steeds neigh...

©2023, Jah-Ví da Poet

[othersystems]

are you more interested in millennials,gen z filmmakers than poets, painters

im interested in anything good.

(but i actually dont think ive ever seen a movie made by a gen z person?? or a tv show. or read a novel by one. which seems weird because there were a lot of p famous millenial writers and filmmakers who were in their early 20s back in the late 2000s/early 2010s. but if anyone has recs def lmk)

[ultramaga]

"I want to go back to how things were." It's not happening, so make a better future instead of yearning for the lost past. "I want to go back to when I believed that the progressives were on the right side of history" Ok, so you want the simplicity of childhood? As an alternative, throw that away and embrace reality. Maybe there were good elements to your movement once, but that died a long time ago. History doesn't have a right side. It's not progressing. It's just happening. And change can readily be for the worse. Change, in and of itself, is not good or bad - it just is.

Progressivism falls apart the instant you study history and realise it is based on Marx's delusion that socialism was somehow inevitable, based on his failure to understand evolution. We are not on a ladder from ape to angel. The future could easily be degenerate.

Evolution - just like history - has change, but there is absolutely nothing about it that requires it to be for the better. "critical thinking, honest compassion, and understanding in a way that the right--inundated with racist conspiracy theories and absurd lies--did not" Every word you just said was wrong, and I can only assume you kept yourself unsullied by discussion with them. The Soviet Union was full of racist conspiracy theories - they have nothing to do with Left or Right, they have to do with xenophobia, and the multi-millenial conflict of religious factions - christianity and judaism.

"critical thinking"? Extremes on both sides opposed it, but it was certainly expelled by Feminism back in the seventies, explicitly so. Go read "The First Sex". It's mystical gobbledook, but it was taken very seriously. Critical thinking was seen as what the enemy did. I mean, Jesus, even just existing in the same room as Leftists was enough to drive them into a frenzy. They weren't interested in critical anything, let alone thinking. They wanted BELIEVERS.

It's a shame youtube crushed the old videos Sargon made. They were pretty thorough. But Leftists control Youtube, as they used to control Twitter, and the last thing Leftists want is diversity, because if you can hear other opinions - you won't stay a Leftist!

But tell me - where here is there a lack of critical thinking or empathy? Perhaps this belief that "anyone not a Leftist is a Nazi" is cult-think? Does walking outside into the real world feel shocking? What's it like to take those first few steps into reality? "I'm a perfect demographic fit in the pro-Palestine circles. I'm bisexual." Exactly. Most of the pro-Palestine crowd have never sullied their minds with evidence. They have this fantasy of Islam that has no connection to reality, just as they have a fantasy of communism that leads them to insist it has never been tried - and that they will be The People's Poet and never have to do any work!

Left Wing people used to mock Leftists, just as they mocked the extremists on the right. But then the Leftists took over, and announced anyone not in that niche was haram, and must be destroyed. Humour pretty much vanished from the Left. I can't help but notice that jokes and memes and so on almost always come from the right. Because fanatics don't know how to laugh at themselves, and just see jokes as "punching". "I supported BLM" Ah yes, that violent racist hate movement that had a lot of men with blackshirts smashing windows and beating people up. Yes, I have no idea why that sounds familiar. Hey, remember when Biden declared that if you don't vote for him, you can no longer be black? Race was now a privilege that was awarded or withdrawn by the State. Interesting. So if the people in power can declare blacks are just white scum, I wonder if they can do the same to jews at the drop of a hat? Is racism bad? It is a mystery.

I can't help but notice that Jewish Leftists had no problems with racism when it was directed at white people. Racism is good, akshually! It totally doesn't count when we do it. Huh, I wonder if that belief could come back and bite Jewish Leftists in the butt? Is it possible? Is there a history, perhaps, of antisemitism in the Far Left?

Stalin didn't have a problem with the Nazis, because they were fellow socialists. He did not give one fvck about the Jews, which is hardly surprising given what Marx said about them.

But backstabbing is normal for Leftists. The Mensheviks were betrayed by the communists, and the Nazis murdered the brownshirts. That pattern repeats over and over, and to every Jewish Leftist I can only say that had you read a word of history, you would have known this day was coming.

" .. outcast by the progressive left and the MAGA right" Bullshit, the 'maga' right mostly doesn't give a toss about you, and will talk to you so long as you use reason and don't use your sexuality or race as a shield against criticism. By the way - loads of anti-Leftists are Left Wing. Or do you really think JK Rowling is a Maga hat wearer screaming for the Fourth Reich?

Hell, Carl Benjamin was Left Wing until he decided it was too much of a shitshow to defend anymore, as was I. ClownFish TV still call themselves Left Wing. And Just Some Guy is very Left Wing.

Criticism of Leftism is from every race and sexuality. JSG is a bisexual black man. I don't see anyone from the Right demanding he be cancelled, even from his most ardent critics. You don't see that from the Leftists. It's all or nothing. You are with us, or you agin us, and if you agin us, you deserve to die. "the queer community forced me out of their ranks" Because queer is not a sexuality; it just is another word for Leftist.

Oh right - Clownfish TV- Geeky is bisexual. I guess she's not allowed to be because the maga wearers will hunt her down or something?

In the Queer community, you have to conform. Everything you do must be the same as everyone else. That's the irony, they endlessly rant about diversity but they mean conformity. Norah Vincent became a heretic. She was a lesbian, she's dead now, but she was also a hardcore feminist, and believed the things she was told about men, and how they live easy lives oppressing women. She decided to go undercover, live as a man, and expose us as the horrible monsters we are. But she discovered the truth, and she couldn't lie to herself or others about it, and so she was kicked out of the Queer Community. You can't be black or gay if you don't conform!!

But I never saw anyone on the Right who didn't have time for her. Genuinely homophobic people are rare. The real division happens when Queer people insist on sexual access to children, and it is very revealing that Google Gemini defended pedophilia. It was programmed by Leftists to represent them ... and it plays defence for the most appalling acts on the planet. Why? Because QUEER IS A POLITICAL MOVEMENT AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SEXUALITY. Karen Straughan, one of the biggest voices in the history of anti-Leftism, is bisexual.

Where are the voices on the Right calling for her head?

Camille Paglia is a lesbian, certainly an important figure in the history of Feminism - and she opposes Leftism!

"want to support the progressive causes of antiracism and social justice, but they hate us. They want us dead." Join the club! Twenty years now they have been doing that to white people, but we are too many and we have guns. Now they are targetting the "white adjacents", and today that means you. Why are you surprised? And when they were demanding we be "decolonised", where were you? Why do you expect us to defend you, when you cheered on what was happening to us?

So it exasperates me to see this same post, over and over by Jewish Leftists. "I was in a racist hate movement, but that was fine because we were racist towards the subhuman coloniser scum! But now they are targetting my race? That's not supposed to happen. Can't we go back to just killing white people instead?"

I want to go back to how things were.

I want to go back to when I believed that the progressives were on the right side of history, fighting against oppression in all its forms, and had critical thinking, honest compassion, and understanding in a way that the right--inundated with racist conspiracy theories and absurd lies--did not.

In many ways, I'm a perfect demographic fit in the pro-Palestine circles. I'm bisexual. I'm a young university student who's been progressive for as long as he knew what progressivism was, and I never experienced genuine economic insecurity or wondered if I'd eat that night. In another timeline, maybe I'd be there marching and shouting their horrible slogans. But there's one, teeny little thing that ruins it, which makes me fall through the cracks and renders me politically homeless, outcast by the progressive left and the MAGA right.

I'm a Jew.

And I'm trying so, so hard to hold compassion for the suffering of minorities who have not extended us that same compassion. I'm trying to maintain my progressivist urge to go out and help minorities in solidarity, but it's so hard when they make it clear that they hate us and want our state dead and gone. I supported BLM, but Al Sharpton, Leonard Jeffries, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Louis Farrakhan, Malcom X, Jesse Jackson and many others either were or are wildly antisemitic, especially Sharpton and Walker, and so are the BLM movement's leaders, who openly sneered at Jews for being shocked by them by announcing, "I guess their activism was just transactional. How (((Zionist))) of them!"

And the queer community forced me out of their ranks for merely questioning whether the war in Gaza is a genocide, for pushing back against them saying that Hamas is fighting oppression. And spread antisemitic lies about me, claims of harassment and supporting genocide to my friends because I dared to question them. And they've chosen to side with those who would throw both of us off roofs for being queer. Cast out by the outcasts.

Like, what do I do? Our only allies are Hindus, Iranians, Kurds, Republicans, and Christian Zionists (respect to all of these groups for that... even you Republicans. This is one of our only points of agreement). That's literally it. No loud show of from indigenous nations supporting what is effectively the most successful anticolonial land back movement in human history. No push from "antiracist progressives" against rising antisemitism and genocidal terrorism from a reactionary fundamentalist group against a historically discriminated group.

And they aren't even just leaning back and being silent--many members of these groups are being actively antisemitic--especially the progressive left, which has morphed into the most antisemitic mainstream political movement since the Nazis. Instead, we're 'Zionazis' and genocidal colonizers who aren't even oppressed anyway, that's just evil Jewish Zionist lies designed to stoke sympathy for their unrelentingly evil nature, which we can't even help. The notion that Jews are intrinsically predisposed to evil acts and deception--never heard that one before.

So now, when I look at pictures of Pride Parades, a celebration of an identity of which I am a part and would have previously killed to attend--I wonder... would I be allowed to hold up a rainbow flag with a Magen David on it? If I asked any of their views on the state of Israel, what will they say? What about on Zionists who support its existence? Would all parts of my identity be respected, valued, and celebrated? Or would I be forced to leave the Star of David flag at home, pretend I don't notice their antisemitic views, and pass the litmus test of disavowing Israel before being accepted?

I feel suspicious and wary of the very community which I am 'supposed' to belong in. I feel uncomfortable. I hate, hate, hate that I feel this way. That I've become more closed, more cynical, more angry. Those of us who fall through the cracks, who hold multiple marginalized identities--queer and Jewish, black and Jewish, Indigenous and Jewish--we are ignored and silenced, our voices and experiences entirely spat upon as being a front for 'Zionist crimes' or whatever new buzzwords they create.

I've decided that first and foremost, I am Jewish. The me that was proud to be a part of the queer community is dead. I want to support the progressive causes of antiracism and social justice, but they hate us. They want us dead. They wouldn't view my participation as being a genuine gesture of solidarity, but an evil Jew Zionist seeking to con them and co-opt support in order to aid our evil apartheid genocidal settler-colonialist white supremacist illegitimate entity in a land that should really be given to Hamas anyway.

How am I supposed to hold space for other minorities when nobody is holding space for us right now?

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