/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14537926]

Can wageslaves still be poets?

[Anonymous No.14537937]

Only if they quit

[Anonymous No.14537939]

a thread died for this

[Anonymous No.14537944]

>>14537926
If he hasen't been transformed into an NPC he can, if not then he'll have to settle for being a PoMo writer

[Anonymous No.14537951]

>>14537926
Some of my favourite writers were working class wageslaves in the early 20th century.

[Anonymous No.14538145]

>>14537926
Yeah and they are less faggy and don't live in deam world bukowski comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.14538165]

>>14537951
List?

[Anonymous No.14538180]

>>14537926
Yes.
Wallace Stevens

[Anonymous No.14538184]

>>14537926
Im seeing myself more and more in this image by the day and it's scaring me help God I don't know what to do

[Anonymous No.14538190]

Watch "Paterson".

[Anonymous No.14538211]

>>14538184
add something to your routine
act differently at work*( try to be more productive, motivated or innovative)
be nice to your coworkers, treat them like humanbeings
go do something wild on your days off

[Anonymous No.14538220]

>>14538184
If you want God’s help unironically join a church

[Anonymous No.14538223]

>>14538184
kill your boss

[Anonymous No.14538240]

>>14538223
My boss is fine, it's my bosses boss (and their boss) that are assholes.
>>14538211
I don't work where I do because I want to but because there's nothing else
>>14538220
It's a figure of speech, gods not real

[Anonymous No.14538253]

>>14538190
>consuming visual media

[Anonymous No.14538282]

>>14538253
>implying this is bad

[Anonymous No.14538304]

Please delete this thread, it triggers my wageslaveness

[Anonymous No.14538322]

I'm unemployed atm, looking for a job. I'd rather be a wagie than be homeless and starve.

[Anonymous No.14538327]

>>14537926
>stuck in a physical labor job
>everything feels like pain
>wakes up groggy 15 minutes before its time to leave, has no morning routine, sleeps in work clothes that he wears all week until finally on friday he gets naked for the first time and takes a shower, smokes two cigarettes on the 15 minute drive to bosses house, sometimes stops at dunkin donuts, busts ass all day and doesn't eat lunch, finishes the day to smoke two more cigarettes on the drive home, goes back home, sleeps, wakes up, gets drunk, then goes back to sleep. rinse and repeat.
>worries about the cops pulling him over for having an unregistered shitbox and an expired license, only ever drives to and from work
>has no coworkers, only 60 something year old boss who makes him do all the work
>feels like he doesn't know what a personality is anymore
>always tired, sore, stimmed out or drunk, definitely abuses substances
>meals are mcdonalds or nothing, shits twice a week and it smells like death, finally realizes why his dad's shits smelled so bad -because of the alcohol
>definitely drinks a lot of coffee/energy drinks, alcohol and smokes a lot of cigarettes
>daydreams about being imprisoned so at least he won't have to be the one responsible for his own dehumanization
>can't bear to think even one day into the future

[Anonymous No.14538341]

>>14538327
AHHHHHHHHHHHH make it stop

[Anonymous No.14538412]

>>14537926
yes

[Anonymous No.14538442]

>>14538327
Just realised why my dad's shits smelled so bad

[Anonymous No.14538449]

>>14538190
this

[Anonymous No.14538457]

>>14538442
sorry to be the one to break it to you

[Anonymous No.14538473]

[Anonymous No.14538522]

>>14538473
what am i looking at?

[Anonymous No.14538900]

>>14538522
Our luxury model wage cage.

[Anonymous No.14538957]

>>14537926
Absolutely not

[Anonymous No.14539128]

>>14538240
So kill them. Do we have to do all your critical thinking for you?