Let’s get an MFA; let’s learn how to separate our minds
From our bodies, and our bodies from our souls
Let’s utter words without meaning, words anchored in
Lies, words that die the moment they are spewed onto
The page, and then rot upon the barren plains forever
Let blindness be our sword and insouciance our shield
Let’s open the cage to the beasts of nihilism, philistinism,
And anti-intellectualism; let’s kneel at the alter of capital
And lick the boots of careerism; let’s burn the hallowed
Timeless texts, while ignoring egregious inequality,
Mass incarceration, the mendacious media, our diabolical
Healthcare system, and the trillions of dollars wasted on
Maintaining a barbaric empire; instead, let’s write about
Shopping for shoes, doing the dishes, and what a pleasure
It is to put style over substance; even better let’s write about
Nothing at all; let’s watch lots of TV and let our minds decay
Until they degenerate into a cesspit of soulless inhumanity
So that we may be refashioned in the image of our leaders