by Alison Driscoll
The defining symbol of our generation.
Well done us.
Generation X, Why, Zzzzz鈥檚
Millennials: entitled and overlooked
Because we are trapped in our digital age
Our ultra-slim screens and pocket sized cells
To keep us bound every hour of the day
To memes and stories and l4ls
And follower counts and post likes
And hashtags.
The single most silencing key.
Remember the days it was the unused Nokia button?
鈥淲hen finished please press the hash key鈥�
Its use is to end the conversation with the credit voice.
And yet we punctuate our lives with them seeking credit from whom?
The little metal grates littering our feeds
Saying nothing. Trying to say everything.
That old picture from 2010 鈥� better wait til Thursday #tbt
The face you鈥檝e been given slimmed with browns and golds 鈥�
#MUA or My Unoriginal Aesthetic.
#nomakeupselfie but god bless Dogpatch and never Kelvin
#goals sorry where鈥檚 the net?
#I鈥檓afraud #error because correct grammar isn鈥檛 recognised.
Is the cyber jail cell worth all those brain cells?
If you hashtag you become one of millions who have selfied that day.
You become the ten-a-penny, the carbon copy
The stream of faces and people who鈥檝e categorised their life like yours
Think you鈥檙e unique? Your hashtag disagrees.
Is their comfort in the crowd? Better work on your bleat.
Millennials.We are meant to be unique.
But we are pushing buttons not boundaries,
And we鈥檙e all coming out the same.
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