Life is money and promotions.
It's stabbing others in the back and gossiping around the water cooler.
It's toilet paper commercials featuring cutesy bears,
and sports cars mid-life-crisis suburbans can't afford,
flashes of metallic red and growls of
oversized engines tearing up absurd racetracks.
It's keeping up with the Joneses and back-to-school sales;
it's Botox and antidepressants and Viagra.
It's diet plans and shopping on the weekends,
sports on TV and posting vacation photos on Facebook.
And so we hurdle mindlessly to our doom.