Regarding oneself as a product of the times
Is a hardy perennial
A transhistorical fact
An ineluctable modality

Condemned to vulgarity
Barely capable of commencing
Much less completing
The introversion of the quest

Failing to resolve the dire antinomies
As of subject and object
Mind and nature
Self and soul

Failing to adopt
And indeed actively renouncing
The humanist lexicon
The centrality of free thought

Options abound
One could hire an automatic writer
School at sex drugs or mysicism
Scrape away at the neocortex

Or stage dive
Into the uniform crowd
The random enthusiasts
Influence influence influence

Meditate upon pop stars and restaurants
Postures and proposals
Cliches and bon mots
And the fall from a terrifyingly great height

To complain
Of sad disorder
A naive fantasy
Of primal order