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I Want to Be

An Influencer!

By Canute LimariderPublished 2 months ago • 1 min read
Runner-Up in Say It Again Challenge
Photo by Diggity Marketing on Unsplash

I want to be an influencer

I want to win a Pulitzer

I want to be a content creator

Or maybe instead an online hater

Or that guy on the boat...what's it?

Yes! The Master Baiter!

Hands smell like fish

But the people all wish

They had the pull that I do

The numbers of crowds who

Wanna make their mamas proud, too

With their special ability

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I want to be an influencer

I want to go to Hollywood

I want to be a neuromancer

I want to change the world for good

Or bad

It don't matter to me

I just want your mo-mo-mo-mo-money

I'll dangle my bait

And you can bite

That's right...

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I want to be an influencer

But I'm a card-carrying front-row-seater

Among the post-literate masses

We been sitting on our asses

In front of a screen

Being totally passive

While Al and his gang are being wildly aggressive

And now it's getting more and more oppressive

Because everything I can see

Says that what they're telling me

Is all I need to see

And it's all good and right and just

And I guess it must

Be

'Cuz it's all I can see

I think I 'll go tell all my friends

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About the Creator

Canute Limarider

I'm a writer, cyclist, bassist, reader, retired USAF pilot w/ 3 masters' degrees & a $5 spot. With the latter, I can easily afford a 12 oz. coffee. Woot! Woot!

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    Written by Canute Limarider