The Michael Toy

Poems and Other Programmes


real life


we all work here
nobody really lives here

we shape the future all day long
then scurry home to various different disneylands

places we spend the foolish money they throw at us
proving with our real lives that we are not nerds

middle class suburbs, stolen, shoving aside,
with walls of cash, teachers and auto mechanics

hipster paradise, little neighborhoods with cheap rent
and vanishing populations of immigrants

isolated mountain retreats
just inside the radius of a convenient commute

hoping nobody will notice, it is only when we are back at work
that we feel really alive

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