Popular Poems About Pop Culture

Being 12 years old
and hooked on crap
non-culture from the States,
your High School Musicals
and 90210s,
OCs, boy bands, teen flicks.

My brother tells me how
these products lied to us,
sold us the lie, across the pond,
that adolescence was
a wonderland of learning how to be.
As if they ever cared for truth.

And now we know that even they,
the dream children of Hollywood,
were being touched and raped
and cast into the sludge.
The lie itself did not even
support its own servants.

The...

Plastic people, faux life  
Celebrities shine,  
Amongst the pain & strife  
An illusion of a directors thoughts  
Cesspool in Eden  
Pleasing the studio boss  
Artificial in everything that's seen  
Pictures of beauty  
Reality is a dream  
Never think more then you know  
A testament to your image  
Look your best, before the show  

Wading in a shallow pool  
Drink it up like a fool.  
Trees a plenty and lost inside.  
A forest, crazies, come to hide.  
Hollywood, shining bright.  
The stars,...

Plastic people, faux life
Celebrities shine,
Amongst the pain & strife
An illusion of a directors thoughts
Cesspool in Eden
Pleasing the studio boss
Artificial in everything that's seen
Pictures of beauty
Reality is a dream
Never think more then you know
A testament to your image
Look your best, before the show
 
Wading in a shallow pool
Drink it up like a fool.
Trees a plenty and lost inside.
A forest, crazies, come to hide.
Hollywood, shining bright.
The stars, flickering, through...

The Crimson Ghost assisting Marilyn Monroe
Getting herself dolled up, right before the show
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