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devilmech β Narcissistic Apathy
Published: 2003-01-05 04:21:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1178; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 90
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Got my sunglasses onMy weapon of choice
Can you take my order?
I'd like a bullshit ego trip
Make that to go
Run fingers through my hair
Narcissistic forever fucked
Maybe you can see my world
I can't see it around my ego
Maybe it's not there
Self-image in my mind
Doesn't match the reflection
Your mirror no longer reflecting
The world in my outstretched palms
It's in my head
Narcissistic Apathy
Matching my over-reaching dreams
Sold my soul for the fuck of it
To buy this commodity of ego
Because I can
Only I can care
Because I'm the only one
Spend a lifetime building... life?
Fuck your inevitable alarm clock
Hit the kill switch
Back to my sunglasses
Ignore the world
Till it's not boring me
Maybe I'm too complex to be
I'm only me
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Comments: 24
Each of us bleeds in a different color. Who we are when we're not ourselves..... hmm...
I can see through your eyes, devil... I can at the least try to understand.
Nobody knows everybody.
Chaos_Theory
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Wow this piece is incredibly striking. My interpretation, the sunglasses are obviously a device used to block out true perception of the world, allowing him to revel in and build up his own imaginary world in which he has incredible significance and importance. I guess this is a true reflection of post-modernist society, where the individual is hardly valued at all, and this persona is rebelling against this. It gets even more complex and interesting because his ego, and rebellion against society, makes it so that he hardly understands what he believes in. seems he eventually reaches the point where heβs confined in his own world, which comes with advantages and downfalls. In selling his soul he rejects other elements of society and reality, thus confining him again.
I liked this poem a lot, despite seeming to be simple (through the use of colloquial language) it explores a deep issue and brilliantly reflects society now-a-days.
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I really like this poem. The voice in it reminds me a little bit of Carol Ann Duffy's Psychopath- I'm not sure if it's a persona, so I'm not sure how worried you should be by that!
I find myself instantly hating the persona, anyway. Although it is self-conscious in recognising the ego thing and that, it's almost worse because the person recognises it and doesn't care.
I don't see a huge amount of metaphor in this. I see it as pretty direct, actually. The style is cool. It's angsty, but clever with it.
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thank you very much for your comment on this piece.
As for whether it is a persona, I suppose that it might be. See, the thing is, that poem WAS me not too long ago. It's very dear to me, if only as a reminder that I am not god.
As for the style, I appreciate your words. Much of my writing is carried out in a similar fashion. It is just the way that I think, and it's what comes out when I put words on paper. Perhaps I am less angsty now that I am out of my teens, but that hasn't changed my entirely too cynical and satirical outlook on life.
Again, thanks for the words
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been there, done that. i think i'm wearing some similar shaded sunglasses!
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It's a bit of a paradox. This person believes the world revolves around him, he believes he is all there is to it, and yet he wonders. He wonders if there's a world his ego isn't letting him see. He knows it's just a belief, he know it's bullshit. He knows there's a real world out there, he knows his pride is a commondity, nothing tangible or with any meaning. That's where the apathy comes in. He knows his life is a digusting lie, and he doesn't give a shit. I truly enjoyed this piece. The blunt raw truth of it. I could see a pair of sunglasses, a hand running through hair. I envisioned a cracked mirror showing a shattered truth. And I could feel him believing it, and beneath it all the underlying truth that he knows but won't live by; that he's wrong. I loved this poem, and fav'd it, so I can read it again plenty more times.
Thank you for sharing.
--
"Wear that mask until you love it ... And then die in it."
- I guess I found my Iron Mask
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I like it. One question... did you take the picture of those, or did you 3d model them? It looks like the 3d model, but I know I also see you're (the photographers) reflection in them... but even that can be modelled...
I like the poem a ton. I'm not sure why... something just struck me as cool.. Nice Job
Much Luck,
Paul
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Now all you need do is walk around with some hottie holding a mirror and you got it made.
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strong emotion -- nicely written
and yes, i liked it, as usual
and yes, i do know that this is several days (haha) old..just now getting time to go back through stuff that was here when i joined DA...
*hugs to you*
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Hard to undersand, especially if you're a retard like me and don't know what narcissistic means by looking at it , but I liked it. I didn't think it was scattered...maybe that's because a lot of my stuff seems scattered to me too so I just dont notice it anymore. Great job.
(I did byt the way figure out what narcissistic means and (after reading it three times) finally think i get the jist of it.)
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I'm too lazy to understand poems
But it sounds good
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NOTE: This poem has gone through a major rewriting. One stanza was changed, and three were added to expound upon my state of mind when writing this. Thanks for all the comments so far, I put my heart into this, so I hope you like it
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She sings the song "I'm talking to you, Bitch". The opening line is one I use quite often and goes "Listen Bitch, I'm gonna let you know how it is"
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very nice....i like it....kudos again on an awsome peom...
the first time i read it i thought it said panda..lol
"the only thing i fear is that i have nothing to fear at all"
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Very good use of metaphors,
This line caught my eye and shoot out,
"Id like a bullshit ego trip,
Make that to go"
Lol that ruled bro..
its does feel alittle scattered though.. something feel either out of place, or shouldn't have been there.. somewhat taking away from the poem.. still pretty good nonetheless
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now that my comp isnt being retarded I can comment Like I said b4 devil, this poem rocks!!!
it gots lotsa emotion
I like it alot, great work
j00 are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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gotta love how you're not afraid to come off narcissistic. you're a bold guy, yup...
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I like the use of metaphor in this poem...and i definetely know that "to complex to be" feeling.
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LOL... it's astonishing.. somehow... whenever you put something up for display, that's how i'm feeling that particular day..
peas in a pod eh LOL
nicely written.. i like it
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man this poem speaks to me...
it says "HEY FUCK YOU WORLD"
"I'M GONNA DO WHAT I WANT!!"
I like it
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interesting... I like the metaphor in here... specially the sunglasses one... but it seems a bit too scattered.... the second stanza doesn't really adhere to the first and third very well...
"Maybe I'm too complex to be
I'm only me"
I like those lines...
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