synonym

Put on your Armani shirt and your Versace pants
Match them with your Gucci jacket and your Prada shoes
Because underneath them all, there is nakedness.

Grab the latest phone, sport the trendiest haircut
Read a critically-acclaimed book and watch the latest award-winning movie
Engage in pseudo-intellectual conversations,
Dive into heated arguments about politics and philosophy
Equipped with recondite words and an impressive accent
Because dire is the need to belong and
immediate is the demand to be unique.

Dine in an expensive restaurant and spend
a family’s week’s worth of budget on a single dish
It scorches the tongue and upsets the stomach,
but to you, it tastes ambrosial
Frequent the hippest bars and the discriminating clubs
where the noise is called music, and the people, beautiful like you
Because there is void.

Don’t forget the funky coolness,
the irresistible sexiness
And on top of it all, the brazen attitude
Because there is the crippling insecurity.

What, again, is the synonym of happiness?



07 February 2004
Saturday