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Choose
Choose unironically ripping off a film to be ironic
Choose now because then will never be enough
Choose puff puff puff puff puff pass because you’ll never have enough
Choose feeling guilty in the morning because it’s better than sobriety
Choose watching the movie instead of reading the book
Choose a diet of coffee, fags and alcohol so you die before you remember
Choose a t-shirt with a design on the back so you can have a personality
Choose a McDonalds breakfast because the ad told you to
Choose a rhyming couplet to be traditional
Choose the right party to be constitutional
Choose voting for the fox in disguise because the wolf bares it’s teeth
Choose third wave feminism because you need an identity
Choose bringing down the patriarchy because there’s nothing better to do on a Sunday morning
Choose loving a random person because you hope they love you too
Choose pretending that everything’s alright because if you admit it’s not everything will fall apart
Choose falling deeper because it’s easier to fall than to climb back out
Choose a life of desperation, regret and pain because everything else is two dimensional
Choose being pathetic because nothing else will ever work
Choose a random guy to be spontaneous because everything else is planned
Choose an iced watermelon tropical passion fruit and kiwi vape to get you through a day of absolutely nothing
Choose a five bedroom house with two bathrooms and an en suite with an open plan kitchen-dining area and a kitchen island with little stools around it that will never be used because they’re uncomfortable and are there purely for aesthetic purposes
Choose colour changing LED lights because your mood should be defined by the colours around you
Choose a death bed of poppies to pity the victims of their creation
Choose being sarcastic because humour is all there is
Choose optimism so you have more to drink
Choose an eclectic music taste for all occasions because you must be accepted
Choose sex with a person you love because you ed everything else
Choose God in a vacuum-packed ready meal ready to eat in two minutes (in bite sized pieces) because you can’t jump into believing all at once
Choose artistic robbery because no other robbery is as fulfilling
Choose repeated techniques and extended metaphors with personification and assonance and consonance and sibilance so all the English teachers have a job
Choose recycling because the environment is important and you must feel good about something
Choose protesting so you matter to an undefined united utopian organisation
Choose alliteration because it’s taught to primary school students
Choose an electric car because you can and will save the environment single-handedly
Choose a hybrid car to satisfy Greta
Choose a gas-guzzling Ford because the power and the people of the United States are most important to those who own it
Choose cycling to inflate your ego
Choose walking because you need to be important
Choose human ing beings because it’s all you’ll be and we’ll be and I am and you are and how do we and what do we and why do we choose
Choose to continue
Choose the pause button when you go to the bathroom
Choose a TV show with an archetypal male character that struggles through life with uninspiring repetitive originality and a love interest which never starts and never finishes and a friend or two and a cheap car with a faulty engine and a vague meaning which applies to everyone because everyone has to feel something and art is a collective mob
Choose a double bed because you enjoy sleeping next to a ghost
Choose an iced oat latte with two shots of espresso and three pumps chai and one oat with organically processed coffee beans that come from fair trade farms in a town far far away in Columbia somewhere because it’s socially acceptable to be addicted to caffeine
Choose a weekly shop at Lidl to organise chaos until you realise everything is smaller and everything is bigger
The universe and the stars and the earth and the land and the people and the dust and the atoms and the neutrons and quarks and everything came together to choose you
Choose believing that you exist in this world
Choose forgetting this world forced you to exist
Choose writing so you can tell the world to itself for existing
Because on the nose and blatant is choosing to continue on
Choose convention
Choose repetition
Choose choosing
Choose metaphorical miscommunication
Choose abstinence
Choose nothing because something is really nothing
Choose please oh god choose
Choose freedom
Choose passion
Choose kindness
Choose beauty
Choose for s sake
Just choose
Choose life
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Ethan Klastaitas
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