Are We Here To... Poem by Eric Nelson Manley Shelman

Are We Here To...

Are we here to exist?
Are we here to resist?
Are we here to persist?
Are we here to desist?
Are we here to be blissed?
Are we here to be dissed?
Are we here to always have clenched fists?
Are we here to misunderstood gists?
Are we here to become cysts?
Are we here to be kissed?
Are we here to become statics of lists?
Are we here to be missed?
Are we here to enjoy the mist?
Are we here to be hungry in others midst?
Are we here to be pissed?
Are we here to become grist?
Are we here to become schists?
Are we here to enjoy our trysts?
Are we here to continuously turn and twist?
Are we here to break our wrists?
Are we here to assist?
Are we here to be put on the backlist?
Are we here to die from blood cysts?
Are we here to make checklists?
Are we here to consist?
Are we here to delist?
Are we here to demist?
Are we here to be dismissed?
Are we here to be encysts?
Are we here only to enlist?
Are we here to be put on the free list?
Are we here to become frosty mist?
Are we here only to insist?
Are we here to be put on the price list?
Are we here to be put on the short list?
Are we here to be put on the sick list?
Are we here tobecome snowy mist?
Are we here to be put on the stock list?
Are we here to subsist?
Are we here to be unkissed?
Are we here to be unmissed?
Are we here to be untwisted?
Are we here to be Bolshevists?
Are we here to coexist?
Are we here to be put on the mailing list?
Are we here to be nativists?
Are we here to be blacklisted?
Are we here to be oculists?
Are we here to become pilar cysts?
Are we here to pre-exist?
Are we here to be reminisced?
Are we here to be put on the waiting list?
Are we here to be anthologists?
Are we here to be expiatists?
Are we here to be glassologists?
Are we here to be put on the A-list?
Are we here to be put on the B-list?
Are we here to be numismatists?
Are we here to be podiatrists?
Are we here to be recidivists?
Are we here to become sebaceous cysts?
Are we here to become hemorrhagic cysts?
Are we here to become ovarian cysts?
Are we here to be Neopostivists?
Are we here to merely exist, resist, persist, insist, and desist, however, we see fit to do so?