What’s wrong with poetry?

[rowens]

Everyone always seems to ignore my suggestions to get away from the intellectuals and those that have the 9 to 5, and give the poetry back to the bums that can't get a real job.

Intellectuals hijack everything, just like the hipsters. People can't even watch Full House any more without making some sophisticated or clever comment. I blame it on the Internet; the Internet's making everyone too damn knowledgable.

I can't even use the old pretend like you're searching for something in your pocket so you can scratch your ballsack in public move any more. People are on to everything.

Soon everybody's going to be so smart, or at least good at sounding smart, and so insecure and self-protected from ridicule, that everything is going to sound like the comment section of some know-it-all's blog, discussing what so and so said in response to so and so about something or another, filled with quotation marks, appropriate Amazon and Good Read links, and a sub-comment section surrounded by a box, showing a snippet from an essay made for school with a link that says "For further reference, see..."

I think the intellectuals should stay drunk for a few months, and miss work without calling in. And the bums should inherit the Earth.