Time Thieves from TEMPUS by Laura Perrudin

perfectly fitted brain-corsets
scrollable vortexes that keep minds quiet
clickable sedatives for my diet
cancerous success, wax happiness,
narcissistic abscesses and cute cats


continuously obsolete
alienated by my desperate
attempts to be present
attempts to exist

running always faster
if only to stay in place
on descending escalators
losing ground again

Time Thieves, Time Thieves,
please keep suffocating me with
please keep suffocating me with
perfectly fitted brain-corsets
scrollable vortexes that keep minds quiet
clickable sedatives for my diet
cancerous success, wax happiness,
narcissistic abscesses and cute cats

swimming every-nowhere
in orchestrated FOMOs
of zombifying news and endless
notification flows

prisoner-executioner
of temporal famine
the swindled master is proud to be
the fastest slave in history

Time Thieves, Time Thieves,
please keep suffocating me with
please keep suffocating me with
perfectly fitted brain-corsets
scrollable vortexes that keep minds quiet
clickable sedatives for my diet
cancerous success, wax happiness,
narcissistic abscesses and cute cats

now if I am the fruit
of what I’ve paid attention to
what fruit am I then ?
the rotten one ? the poisoned one ?

Time Thieves, Time Thieves,
when there’s nothing to say please,
when there’s nothing to say please, shut the fuck up.

• Alternative
• Neo-Soul
• abstract
• electronica
• jazz
• singer-songwriter
• France