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I swear to every heaven ever imagined,
\nif I hear one more dead-eyed hipster
\ntell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare
\nfrom the grave so he can tell them every reason
\nwhy he wishes he were born in a time where
\nhe could have a damn Gmail account.
\nThe day after I taught my mother
\nhow to send pictures over Iphone she texted
\nme a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row.
\nDon\u2019t you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful.
\nBut whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in
\nyour backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club
\nwhile the rest of us fall in love over Skype.
\nSend angry letters to state representatives,
\nas we record the years first sunrise so
\nwe can remember what beginning feels like when
\nwe are inches away from the trigger.
\nLock yourself away in your Antoinette castle
\nwhile eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did.
\nHashtag you\u2019re a pretentious ass hole.
\nVan Gogh would have taken 20 selflies a day.
\nSylvia Plath would have texted her lovers
\nnothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words.
\nAndy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account,
\nand we all would have checked it every morning while we
\nSnap Chat our coffee orders to the people
\nwe wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes.
\nThis life is spilling over with 85 year olds
\nrewatching JFK\u2019s assassination and
\n7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over Youtube videos.
\nNever again do I have to be afraid of forgetting
\nwhat my fathers voice sounds like.
\nNo longer must we sneak into our families phonebook
\nto look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend.
\nNo more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like
\nor how grasshoppers procreate.
\nI will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips
\nin public parks on my cellphone
\nand you will continue to scoff and that is okay.
\nBut I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed
\nyou are to be alive in a moment where you can google search
\nhow to say I love you in 164 different languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

b.e.fitzgerald (Art is a Facebook status about your winter break.)<\/a><\/p>\n

hm.<\/p>\n

(via metamerismmuse<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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