Everything is faster
as if economy,
brief as the flare
off a diamond,
justifies its laborious
beauty (humble brag).
Thin (lies) lives tossed, (public/private)
filtered on the cheap,
rudeness (dash) currency,
this “hyphenated list of
@s and accomplishments”
(see, always working)
in coded group-speak (sneer).
Stop it. There is no
one-up. Don’t waste
your life on nonsense.
Stop it. (Smiley-Face)
Everything is faster.

~Sharon Rousseau

*I write this as a note to myself as much as social criticism. Pulled into Social, I must resist becoming an emoticon. It also seems timely with Richard Prince and SuicideGirls in the news this week here and here and here. The “economy” of reappropriation, what we give away to people who profit naturally, and what we keep for ourselves.