Beholden:

I got to thinking about 
people & life
 and the things they do
 as a preoccupation
 and come to the conclusion 

that too many 

so many people 

take for granted what it is they have
 and how they seek 

to build a artificial life
 in order to escape the pressures 

they in fact made themselves 
by their very own actions
 and so then I looked to the precursors 
that are involved
 and most people will claim money 

environment
even circumstance

or even a certain.. rut 

or even a staleness
 but the biggest precursor 

often 

in fact I think 

always ignored
 is social control

and how it relates to the control of the media 

and the buying of worldly goods 

becoming more 
then the real ideology 

of how life should be in fact lived.

but the sad fact is
 that people mill around 

like rats in a maze
 and what do they have
 but a remote control 

to fast forward rewind 

the life they wish they had

that they see on a tv screen

or a song 
they hear on a stereo

whilst all the while

convinced

this is the life they want

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