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After Electricity
Here I stand before you
 a thirteen year old girl with
 no place to be but 
 slamming.
 
 Here I stand before you,
 Here I stand,
 and yet I have been thrown down so many times
 I just kept on getting back up.
 
 But this isnt a poem
 about how 
 society has affected me
 this is poem about travel.
 
 Travel through space
 Travel through time,
 travel down alley ways,
 to the bus stop,
 to the bakery to get some pain
 pan
 bread-french
 
 Travel through tunnels 
 on planes
 Light travels at 300,000 kilometers per a second
 no matter how hard we try we will never break that speed
 but if thats true 
 then why does it seem like 
 whenever I walk down the street
 there are millions of peices of information flying around me 
 going straight through me
 and the cars are speeding right past me,
 
 cell phones
 telephones
 microphones
 telephone wires 
 wires
 wires
 technology wires
 technology
 power plants
 light 
 speed 
 power plants
 fossil fuels give us power
 power to make our electricity
 no but that makes exhaust
 exhaust makes people unhappy
 we can't have fossil fuels anymore
 so we create our cleaner forms of energy 
 but their not efficient enough
 a government put under pressure 
 to supply for a country that produces without thinking.
 how can a government ever please
 when its citizens dont do anything to help?
 
 
 This is not a poem about pollution.
 This is a poem about supply and demand
 Demand
 demand
 we dont have high enough wages
 lets demand wages
 lets create groups
 lets protest
 lets not see the whole picture
 lets run this company bankcrupt
 oh well now we dont have jobs
 lets demand jobs.
 demand 
 demand
 demand
 demand
 we need electricity
 we need phones
 we need smart phone we need iphones
 we dont need to see someone to talk
 I can just text you
 who needs real friends when i have 5000 friends on facebook
 my life is online 
 I keep all of my documents online
 I need electricity to live
 i need email
 I need ebooks
 I need
 I need
 I need
 POWER OUTAGE
 
 How will this world function
 when the supply of electricity
 is overwhelmed by the demand
 and things 
 become
 un
 plugged
 
 real people
 real words
 pens
 paper
 this things will still exist in a world
 after electricity.

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