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Think Like Me
With eyes wide open and glittering,
and nights, all bright, alive
We disregard our generations poets
and instead, We watch a screen where people lie
To put on a show, a famous dance
to shift your mind and where it stands
to distract what is wrong, with what looks right
We fall quite slowly in to the night
where sex and song has been transformed and trite
We will remain blind and unfocused on what is right
Our over sexualized nation is what is wrong
Our lying politicians, Our bad charactered songs
...Our social media, the internet alone...
Our schools are built like prisons,
is America really free?
are you sure you're not imprisoned?
Open Your Mind and Think Like Me
Our poisoned food,
Our lower class,
should you really take that class?
language is mind control, don't you see?
Open Your Mind and Think Like Me
Follow the money and where it goes,
how it runs and how it flows,
Who is it going to? Don't you see?
This Life is a Game, Please Think Like Me
They control your words, and what you see
They control your computer and your T.V.
They control what you hear, and what is told
They control what is bought and what is sold
If you can't keep a secret, you better leave
Open Your Mind, Set Yourself Free
Obedience is slavery,
and compression is pain
Set Your Mind Free, Don't Be a Human of Slain
Trust your mind and where it goes
how many stories can your heart hold?
To think long and hard is what you need,
Open Your Mind. Think Like Me

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Keep writing! You're talented
This piece is inspired by George Orwell's 1984 and by the book The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. I would like to emphasize that if you are not careful of what you hear and read you could be misguided. Language is very important. I am from Bellport, New York and seventeen years old.