People Are Other People
written by: Heath Brougher
Were they always this lame?
Were they always this runnin scared?
Were they always this fearful of the individual?
They are their own human-hewn hell.
I’d like to live to a ripe old age but doubt it since the crowd [which is Untruth] likes to kill anything that frightens it with Authenticity—these two barely-existing qualities scare the hell out of the plasticine masses.
Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. His most recent book is “Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy” (Sandy Press, 2024).
Latest posts by Heath Brougher (see all)
- People Are Other People - June 12, 2025
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