Consumerism Poems - Poems about Consumerism

Try to get out of bed early, try to make your bed. Inhale. Your off-white bedsheets haven’t been washed in a month. Try purchasing a new detergent, one of those that’s petal-scented: 2 in 1 Aroma Boost Spring Daydream Wash. Try smiling in the mirror; especially If you have dimples. They’re the new “it” thing. Inhale. Do yoga....

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Fight the algorithms that tell us what to do, to make us predictable, unoriginal and bankable. Have you witnessed how increasingly bland and homogenous our lives are becoming? Choose freedom avoid the diaries of commerce that riff on the ubiquity of apps resist the reductive tropes of our published and circulated, perspective customer identities. Fight the algorithms with their embedded back-lot familiarity, built around class and consumerism. Try to understand the vague, inscrutable...

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BREAKING: [WEALTHY VENTURE CAPITALIST] BUYS [PLOT OF LAND] FOR [INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION] [CIGARETTES] AND [TYLENOL] [TORNIQUETES] AND [ALCOHOL] LOOPY DOOPY [LAUGHING GAS] [COLORS] [FLAVORS] [SASSAFRAS] FOR [FALSE SENSE OF FULFILLMENT], TRY [ARTIFICIAL PRODUCT MARKETED TO MASSES] [HOUSE FIRES] AND [CAR COLLISIONS] [BURNING TIRES] [FIRST INCISION] POKING AT YOUR [LUNGS] AND [HEART] [PURVEYOR] TO SELL YOUR [PARTS] [SELF MUTILATION] AND [SHEDDING SKIN] IS ALL THE RAGE [RUBBER HOSES]...

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In shopping centres, bright and wide, Where our dreams can fly and glide, We wrap our hearts in things we've bought, Forgetting stars, by city lights caught. Yet, whispers of change might find their way, As people stand up, by the ocean's spray. Our Earth, they say, is worth more than play, A future where green and blue can stay. We must think...

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You can only spend so many hours in labs, study groups and classrooms - under relentless, fluorescent lighting - before you start feeling life withdrawal. When I hit that stresshold, I need to rebalance myself. I could go to the New Haven harbor - I find the ocean endlessly relaxing - or for a quick fix, I...

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A basic cause of inflation is an economic reality Which has little to do with prevailing political ideology, Rather it is rooted in elementary consumerism And stopping it depends on a proper methodology. Demand for a specific commodity goes out of control When there is far more demand than availability. Simply, a shortage of supplies to meet the demands The higher price...

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Were to go without paper I'd never need A pen or a ruler of useful mead That pencil, eraser or stapler alike Are ransom to all a paper knows rike And likened to glue and compass that might Encircle for hours a drawings delight To top with direction and set square on site In measure of paper and cosmo of light To fill in each marker with color or sprite And add to...

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Were to go without paper I'd never need A pen or a ruler of useful mead That pencil, eraser and stapler alike Are ransom to all a paper knows rike And likened to glue and compass that might Encircle for hours a drawings delight To top with direction and set square of site And measure each paper in cosmo of light To fill with each marker in color and sprite And add to...

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The blood is dripping Greed creeping The towers tipping The powerful sipping the sweet tea Made from the blood and sweat of poverty Exploitation Rules the nation Propaganda at every station Look and see There is no more you or me Just gears in the machine of society Don’t lie to me You let them lie to me and you And we buy everything...

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Picturesque and simple with sweet little windows, Tidy guestrooms beside stylish bedrooms, A kitchen straight out of a home catalog, All contain inside plastic walls. Blush, copper, teal walls leading to a bathroom, Cobalt blue hibiscus designs on matching tea sets, Coordinating furniture in every room. Delicate and perfect from the roof to the garden. Impeccable ideal home, a tangible version of home. A...

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as builders spend pennies flipping profits on houses lifestyle gurus show us how to fold trousers and chefs under pressure scream out all their orders while people in need are labelled as hoarders and bookies fix odds for the afternoon races as judges cast judgements on bizarre family cases and contestants press buzzers to win mystery prizes while traffic cops chase young suicide drivers and retirees escape to a life on...

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Shopping without need, desire runs through my veins. I shake my head ‘no’ at those things I merely want, when some outside hold their hand- trying, living day to day- grateful for what they do have....

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I'm constantly searching for myself – That part which is essential, inherent. I sense its presence, it's somewhere within The being which echoes with infrequent shouts Of a neglected foreigner Who happens to live in my dwelling. But it's a language I can't comprehend; Only some fragments, and on rare occasions When we're at peace, like adults With altruistic motives. I'm persistent in my...

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