failure- "the new success"

By seannelson

Fri, 05 Aug 2011
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failure-
it's the new success

in a "developed" world
where ball-brawling cavemen
become imperial business moguls,
where nobody starves but
some drown in greed,
where presentable poets push and pull
for shiny apple book awards
like Swift's gold-hungry Yahoos,
where every other tome of obvious nonsense
sells 50 million copies
and is translated into 50 languages,
where "innovation" is a zombie buzz-word,
where the least spirited pursuit
of profoundly "profitless" fields
wins society's reverence
and the presidential handshake-

haven't you heard?
black is the new white,
wrong is the new right
and failure-
it's the new "success"

Certificate U
Autobiography

Comments

Submitted by Highhat on
You are probably right Sean-

Submitted by seannelson on
I don't know if I'm right- but I thought it was an interesting perspective to write up, sort of something to inspire further thought rather than a solid statement of itself. And thank you, my friend. <]:- )
"If I send you post-cards from the side of the road: photographs of movies, and hearts about to implode"  -  Elliott Smith