Inktober #30 - Grip

AKA Grip This, Get A Grip, Grip & Gritty...

Yeah. I gotta get one more in with larrynachos, I gotta!
Coming at you live again, deep down from the grotto!
Cyberdevil! You know it. As always. Going by motto.
Get out and do what you gotta do! Don't mind the potholes.
Don't let them stop you. Can't be a solution?

Be a problem.

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Scream your demons out you! Rid your feels and doubt too!
Whatever inhibitions keep you browsing e-book 'how to's!
Listen here you're stronger! You go in there and conquer!
When I say in I mean GET OUT: it'll take you onwards!

The world is nuts and bonkers! But that's alright you've tools!
You've got your bolt-cutters and drivers for when screws go loose!
And if someone screws you over well then you can show them!
Your poster of The Omen! Then tear it up and go ham (COME ON)

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Seems I gotta show y'all how, to make dope sounds with an open mouth
What is up with peeps vocals now, they're all the same, autuned and shit
I had big hopes for the new generation, Prof and Ren probably gon' make it
But all the rest man? Fuck your playlists! 'specially the AI generated.

Take a deep dive into the Matrix!
Give the machines your brains your heart your soul.
Back in the day we used to farm for food -
Somewhere along the way we armed for gold.

Started burning coal to melt our metals.
Now burning up the world so we can roll!
In our machines over these greens and petals.
Like we don't like this Earth no' more but...

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I feel we need to cut lose! From all that breeds up such fools!
If we don't care for others! Or from their freedom to choose!
More than we care for comfort! And for just seeing YouTube!
There's something wrong with us, we need new books, an omnibus

Of wisdoms that will make us listen! To the birds and not to the system!
To the world when it rumbles and thrashes, mud slides in our towns like molasses
Cyclones sweeping in with the plastics, bacteria strained off of batshit
Mass-surveillance NSA madness, and territorial disputes damage

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Seems I gotta tell y'all, to quit looking at the mainstream media
They decieve you bruh, and deplete your energy quick like a JCB DieselMax
Don't forget to floss teeth and walk, but fuck a fitbit LTE 3G watch
You don't need it! Get out in the weeds and squat your kilos off

Remember back in the day? When we watched TV and chopped up Pop Rocks
Had cartoons that made us not salty, then went out on a block and played hopscotch
Biked around till your crotch was Numb like a Linkin Park rock song, but we had FUN!
We climbed around and got lots of sun, and could run till energy washed off

Now we sit inside and feel anguish, ants in our pants instead of a bandage
Never break a leg or strengthen a hamstring, and I don't mean cause I'm adult and no athlete
I mean we make ends meet on the Net, we don't need to go to the bank for a check
You don't even need to go shop clothes you dress with, and TALK to a friend? Just send 'em a message!

We're more connected than ever but lonelier too! Tech innovations are phony but new!
The life that we choose is it really our choice? Go ride on the block and get down with the boys
Go to a real concert and drown in the noise! Go to a restaurant, don't order that shit
We've grown to embrace what distancing is, but fuck that, real interaction and strife is a privilege and a...

Right! If you want to live, LIFE! No matter your age group. Forty-five or short and... tiny like a half-pint.
The new new? The new new is not YOU, not always, not if it's non-human, stupid, unhealthy, obtuse.
Get a grip man. Don't jump down the slippery slope of a 'six minutes a day for a six pack' mechanic.
It's bananas! But bananas at least have potasium.