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I feel like it

I feel like writing - the feeling is itch-like.
 
Perhaps something aesthetically unconvincing 
to feed the algorithm or better yet, something
carefully designed to invoke irate criticism.
 
“You aren’t the boss of me!" I’ll be thinking.
 
It’s my understanding (ok, a 15 year old told me)
that younger GenZs go to dances and just stand around 
because GOD FORBID someone takes a pic 
of them looking stupid while dancing. 
 
I’m genZ but I want to shake myself apart on the dance floor.
 
I don’t stand looks - I switch it up with..

“If you think I look stupid
- I don’t look stupid -
your FACE looks stupid. (I sneer)
 
I can stop dancing any time 
but you’re stuck with that face.”
 
Of course, that's an old insult - as old as teens themselves
but sometimes you have to go with the classics.
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A song for this:
Get Him Back by Fiona Apple
Cassandra by Florence + the Machine
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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Fallica Avatar
January 16, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Geeze you’ve been prolific this week!! / I've wished I had at least a little ballroom dancing grace, but I look like an epileptic giraffe at best. <3
Vionet Avatar
January 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I had a homework lull, we're between modules, I've been told. I like dancing, I frequently look stupid and I don't CARE. =]
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