1) Andrew Rueter Nov 2017 – Consumerism

I don't live here

I'm only camping Q4- temporary/lack of
On this planet ownership feeling
I didn't plan it psychological affects
Yet I feel the need to explain it
As the plaintiff
To the sheriff Q4- use of word
Imposing tariffs "their" insinuates lack
of responsibility and
Q2- "us" being Money is their concern blame. money >
society/ While my emotions burn emotions
societal They are somewhat surviving
pressures to At the price of dying
act this way That's the cost of lying "silently" as in not
It makes us stop trying being able to admit
Only commodity buying out loud that this is
While silently sighing bad
And violently frying Q4- reference to
Through fruitless searches "retail therapy", when
No matter what we purchase we purchase to make
Or how much we spend ourselves feel better
The gripping grief never ends as a coping
When there are no hands to lend mechanism, however
it doesn't work Q2/3- is perfection
There are no problems with these items human nature
When we willingly refuse to sight them (perfection we find in
They are from where our problems erupt manufactured
For we neglectfully allow them to disrupt objects)?
The connections that our hearts yearn for Does that then alter
And our wallets burn for our view on ourselves
When we spend our emotions on inanimate objects as we are problematic
To avoid the intangible subject (not perfect)
Of love Q2- people buy things
when they are sad or
We're frightened of phantoms uncomfortable with
A life heightened by tandem feelings/emotions
Is not in the cards
We buy for each other Q5- benefiting others
They don't begin to cover by protecting them
Q4- psychological and making them feel
The way we feel
response, we loved
They are a shield
purchase to cover up
For our true emotions
emotions
Objects can't evoke one
Yet that's our language for expression Q2- societry doesn't
Consumerism acts as our lethal injection understand any other
form of expression
therefore we must
express by
consuming