1. faheem's poem

what do we make
of the world that we
live in?
we used to think
“fitting in” with the crowd
was the root of all evil,
but is it?
what’s wrong with a little
normality?
and what’s with everything
being compared to
the old stuff?

“back in my day,
we had none of this here
autotuned music!!!
all you kids are just
buried in your smartphones!
back in my day,
we didn’t need no calculators
to do our math homework,
we were just that smart!!!”

well,
what’s wrong with autotune?
it’s not always a crutch,
there’s beauty to it,
it allows for artistic expression,
unique-sounding music,
what’s so wrong with that?

our smartphones
might be addicting,
but there’s so much
to explore on them.
why wouldn’t we
bury our faces
when all the info
in the world
is in the palm
of our hands?

and as for that
calculator comment…
well, we’d love to
get off our calculators
if you took time to realize
there’s more to life
than getting a high mark
in your math class,
especially when your career
requires no math class
and you’re drowning
in crippling debt.

whoa, mood whiplash.
cut, flip the tape, go again.

society is a wild beast.
you can never tame it,
you can never give it
a straight answer,
you can never
get a 100
in its class,
but what you can do
is make it all yours
and fit it to your desires.
there’s no right answer
on how society functions,
it’s just how you interpret it.

so what do you see?