the person Stipe is addressing (the celebrity stalker develops his own)

Wed, 12/19/2012 - 01:46 -- jmeira9

“Assaulted
There were two of them
Swung their pipes and keys
Target nightly news announcer
Engineer technician set up for nationwide delivery
Interjected his own sentiment
A man without convictions could never handle the story
Here’s how it went down
Their reasons invisible and undercover operated
The important thing to understand
Something was born and revealed.
Fiddling with Pandora’s lid;
Then there was another involved
The prestigious private family’s stability
One of those irradicate rants hailed with baseball bats
The youth market with monopoly products stored in the trunk
the possibility of justification still potential in the explanation.
This contrived modified and pamphlet resembling
Ticket stubs from a sports stadium boys night out
Your contact will speak to you in the familiar
To invest in stock is part of the job
Trader tips as a religion in itself
Data disappears from incriminating accounting every day,
A risky venture for anyone.
The news man with his grocery bag exactly like the ones used by everyone
Never ran into trouble as many of his associations detailed their worst violation
Since this city existed with them
Obviously shocked by an every day occurrence,
An extra load of briefings and seemingly brandishing weapons
He has seen something like these two on tv
Educational documentary about gun violence in schools,
The band once used as the voice behind the condemnation in a drum sample track
Recorded some vocals to go with
Improvisational stream of consciousness
With bits of the shooter’s personal diaries
Pictures of them in Nazi accessories
To complement the sadistic shades of red white and blue
Never meant to be a lesson
Nor was the song intentional
What else is left?
Except
Monster,
Link up with
The most booming entertainment release
Right from your personal machine
Fanaticism
A publicly available documentation briefing
Against it
Donated to The Media Trial Cooperative of Misinformation Diminishment
Playing the scene endlessly on loop while the singer read its sentences
Unessential whether or not they have any real connection
With the purpose and the issues though always some would come to laugh at him

Rehearsing for his performance as
the celebrity stalker
who has been given immunity
based on consumer stupidity
he prepares,
perhaps inserts himself
in troubling ways.
a disturbing tension;
feeling that you are
irrelevant and powerless,
no matter how he insists on the benefits
of not believing this
it catches your interest
it appears familiar
blowing your whole future on a crime
that held its own righteousness at the same time

The central character narrative
is delivered in 3rd person by our collective reactions.
Withdrawal.
apathy.
irony
shackles of
youth.
is about a frustration
deliberately infantilized
younger people,
wrote off discontent
as inferiority and insensitivity.

We have made clear
The number of writers populating the event
Recently
the person Stipe is addressing
is out of touch,
cultural heroes,
vilifying
belittles
youth.
The most bitter irony
is apparent
both sides
difficult
engage with
version of
reality
that is not some
kind of story.”

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