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one of those who rose to the top, surfing on the backs of others bending over stupidly---manipulated by the pretty face, fast talk, a sexy walk, a mouth full of poetic words & all the confidence a human being could possibly muster--- this riser conveniently forgets what it was like to struggle, this riser forgets what it was like at the ****ing bottom, this riser forgets just what it was like to be young & seemingly powerless, this riser forgets just what it was like to scream & not have it heard, to feel like no one would ever know a thing about them, to feel like blade down the wrist would be the only way to solve everything. the riser does not remember these things, they float on their cloud with selective memory, foolishly thinking that the bliss will last forever & that those that they forgot on the way up, those that got stepped on, those that were disgraced, used & degraded, all for the sake of one human being’s career, will never have another word with them & that they have somehow achieved bulletproof skin, with new walls of security built around them to keep them in tact long enough so that the vultures making money off their very existence can thrive. then one day, the most unbelievable day possible in our history, the riser gets smacked upside the head with a brick made entirely out of ironic anger, as if all the desperation of the world finally unified & found an outlet--- and when the riser falls it is more beautiful than anyone’s rise to the top, it is more honest & with it comes a justice that cannot be put into words--- to watch the unthankful riser come crashing down into the broken & destroyed pieces of the bottom with the rest of us, left alone to fight for scraps with those that still remember who they had been & most of all, what they became--- ah, it is priceless, perfect & oh so entertaining.
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