Oneshotted Into Nihilism
by Michael Doyle

It's no longer pay-to-play but pay-to-win
With a milkshake duck, where do we begin
Mutating in iterative references made more visible
Social media has mostly made us all more miserable

Words rise from the internet's tepid muck
Claiming glory and defamation as a matter of luck
Oneshotted to be made or destroyed in deference
All with the influence of what is a single experience

There is something lost within the irreducible complexity
Comments in passing gigafry the world into simplicity
With one wrong choice of words that might be said
A person's universe is remade into happiness or dread

Chemically charged into the new norm of seeking solutions
Is not a methodology of mindfulness but of changing attribution
Of the filters and perceptions by which they choose to see
Hallucinogens erase the thin line of potential for creativity

Putting on pretenses of coolness makes us anything but cool
Using words we don't understand is the same as elementary school
When we all learned to sound older by being rough enough to cuss
Rather than getting our acts together to learn how to discuss

There is something lost within the irreducible complexity
Comments in passing gigafry the world into simplicity
With one wrong choice of words that might be said
A person's universe is remade into happiness or dread

The destruction of one's soul or mind is not transcendence
No matter how it might seem illustrative there is no resplendence
A thousand repetitive posts only brings about accretion
Not deeper understanding or the utility of needed discretion

No matter how much minds shift through the internet's dross
The total sum of this equation is still for most more of a loss
Screen addiction does not renew  an original ephemerality  
Long term scrolling is an episodic method of losing our mentality

There is something lost within the irreducible complexity
Comments in passing gigafry the world into simplicity
With one wrong choice of words that might be said
A person's universe is remade into happiness or dread

(c) March 4, 2025   Michael Doyle
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