HELP SAVE THE YOUTH OF AMERICA FROM EMO POETRY!
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I’ve been told misery loves company,
so I guess that means social media
is the new suicide watch
A ticking time bomb tumblring and
twittering on about teenage girl problems
Nameless disparaged souls swimming
through cyberspace, searching for
kindred spirits to cuddle with
But their fake hipster glasses
can’t see the forest for the trees
Nor the reblogs from the realness
Apparently misery loves to be looked at
especially with oddly obscure life quotes
all interpreted as “we broke up and
it’s their fault”
The Emo Poetics’ Manifesto
Screaming their heads off, polluting
the air with pubescent pestilence
Burying their siamese sorrows in
mass media graves, their woes become
ghosts that haunt the internet forever
You will never see so many people
think they’re so cold and alone
think so closely together
like newly sewn sweaters
Misery makes people lose their minds
so much that now it’s happening
in yours and in mine
So I’ll say this one time
Call me Tyler because
this isn’t a rhyme, nor my
own design, just the facts:
Before you Tumblr into the community
pool of teenage problems,
or Twitter about your own
Consider first how they
became your ghosts
lest they haunt your next poem