The bus of us
sits
waiting
prepped and prodded
anticipating
boredom our sentence
in need of service
while our numbers grow
space disturbs us
one achieves emancipation
two more assigned
to our station
will moves swiften
as darkness gains
or will tomorrow
we remain.
A detailed study of the origins of the New Alienation. The author labels it normative or postmodern ennui and traces its rise to cultural power over the last two centuries.