The Pillow Society

The Pillow Society

©Ana Sastrias 2013

Pillow creatures

Full of air

Where will your brainless routine takes you?

All of you look the same.

Fluffy, bubbly, ‘pillowy’.

That sameness which identifies you,

Breaking up with what you really are.

Hiding your ideas behind stereotypes.

Opening your mouth more for eating and smoking than for talking.

That sameness that does not connect.

Expelling words with no real conversation,

With no real meaning.

Only filling the time out.

You won’t dare to discover you are empty.

You, the uniformed,

Covering your frustrations with superficiality

Not taking responsibility on your own

By not moving, not thinking, not expressing.

Waiting for some good news to happen.

You purchased a shopping centre personality,

The one that is in fashion.

Same tattoo, same sunnies, estilletos.

No own ideas.

You think that watching Ophra, Ellen and Dr Oz,

Will make you unique and cultured.

Reading Women’s Magazine.

Gossips that never get to be read completely,

Only on the cover page as headlines.

Untested scientifically miracle cures,

Untested slimming diets and products,

Looking for your inner you 

by buying a ticket to Deepak Chopra Spiritual Experience.

You, the one that thinks that money is never enough,

Your credit card is in red, full of shoes, tattoos, cigarettes and hair-dos, piercings, macs, iphones, kfc’s and desserts and one or more spas.

Filling your body with short term calories, with short term satisfaction,

By emptying your wallet, by emptying yourself in the void.

Same conversation, same script every day.

Where are you among all the mass of pillows?

Are you in the picture that sells you a lottery or charity raffle?

You think that success and retirement means golf field,

Cruises and hotels.

Some may be lucky or sold their soul to become caricatures of a pre-fabricated reality.

The reality on billboards, always shiny…

The one with no imperfections, no pimples, no cellulite, athletic and business ‘sabby’

Without ageing with a thirst of aggressive competitiveness.

It seems that competition based on a uniformed social framework is quite unfair, as there is a diversity to be recognised and needs to be enhanced over their own values and culture. Not because the trends are to follow some sophist thinkers who just focus on a limited spectrum, everybody has to follow them unconditionally.

You, the ‘pillowy’,

Who think that have made the mark,

Because have won a sales award

But are not able to express

Your own ideas and own feelings, because that is dangerous.

The ‘pillowy’ who praises always the corporate father or mother institution,

As if everything in your lives would be controlled by this paternal or maternal

Relationships that you already accepted as a mandate.

All answers were already spelled by a designated master,

Your solution to be motivated and being healthy is at your fingertips

Waiting for you to take action,

Not by wasting your money in seminars and conferences

That will give you the same trivial answer that you already had before paying.

For you, ‘pillowy’

Happy only in the shallow waters

Never diving the depths of yourselves.

You will never understand something called “your own being”

With your own spirit and will.

You are scared shit of being alone with no one to be associated with.

You have not discovered the mystery of being connected to others,

As if you have not used it as much or at all.

You are programming your children totally attached to a DVD Screen or an iPhone/iPad or Game screen since babies.

“Look! They are very smart! They can navigate without help at a short age!”

You are providing all the artificial reality your children are demanding on you.

They do not want to talk to you at all. They just come to you to ask you how to select the channel or the video, or which game or movie they want to see. 

Of course, they will be hungry and will ask you for food.

You, mad mothers, making sacrifices to pay a complete “Wonderland” environment for the party of the kids without thinking that the kids have the ability to entertain themselves with very basic things and need to create and explore their own world, not to submit themselves with the pre-fabricated one you are providing to them.

For you, ‘pillowy’,

You are not unacceptable if you are different, although you are afraid to show that difference.

Ana Sastrías

10-10-2013

Penrith, NSW, Australia