The Cure for Consumption

a poem about consumerism

Photo by Gage Walker on Unsplash

To consume 
without satisfaction
is to eat for the sake of craving,
to buy for the sake of wanting,
to look for the sake of searching,
to scroll in the hope of waking from 
that stupor of consumption:
the wasting disease that wants more, 
the more it gets.

It is a disease that tries
making bricks without straw.
It turns …