hipstergenerationmanifesto

don't judge us

or rather do

judge us

we like to be looked at

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we wear large glasses

with plastic rims

and tattered clothes

with block colors

we avoid capital letters

and the mainstream

(and when we can't find

hats and shoes that fit our style

we make our own — the more botched the better)

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we wear scarves

indoors

and smoke cigarettes

(entirely aware that it poisons our

lungs and shatters our dreams)

we sing, we dance

gyrate our hips to the rhythm

of an era

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we also write things

down (mostly)

fiction, sort of, in prose or poetry

unaware, we emulate Carver's style

a generation of Carvers

(the trick is to write short, quipped sentences — you punch the period [.] in fast, for effect, before too many adverbs creep in and make you sound like Dostoyevski, then you insert random things — details that are meaningless but can mean anything for an english major, which we all are at heart)

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we have opinions

(based on pop-culturists

and rebels)

we shout them at

our parents and each other

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but it's more than

how you look

or what you do

it's how we are

that makes us hip:

that calculated nonchalance

and cool, biting wit

to cover an empty inside

lost

{This is kind of silly. Really it's just filler. I'm buying time to write an idea that I have for a longer short story. Hopefully I should start posting that next week.}