Sardonic

It's not a word used every day. It is nearly similar to sarcasm...except with an important difference. When using sarcasm, one generally doesn't actually mean the words conveyed. 

Sarcasm: 
              1). the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say especially in order to insult someone, to show irritation, or to be funny.
           2). a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual.

Sardonic:
           1). disdainfully or skeptically humorous :  derisively mocking.

With Sardonicism, one actually means what they say. I only provide this prologue to the Five Hipsters poem because when looking for a way to describe this poem, sardonic immediately came to mind. I mean every word of it.

But first:

Let Me Tell You About A Girl (part 2 of 3)

Let me tell you about a boy
who would learn to fly,
though a fledgling without feathers or wing.
A bird with mocking dreams
is doomed to flutter
on teasing winds.

Long from the nest departed,
he again plummets to ground, baffled.
To ever increasing heights he climbs, unafraid,
but blind from the illusion
that flight and falling are the same,
that all he needs is more air to survive.

So cruel is Nature
to invest such desires in flesh,
yet divest it of all means.
But fly he tries
over, over, over
"It will happen some day!"
over, over, over
"Don't try so hard!"
over, over, over...
And not for lack of bruises and broken heart
            he remains
                           earthbound.



Five Hipsters

Five Hipsters sit in a room
a vacuous cube painted beige
( by someone they care not who )
because
a tavern would be too cool.

They sit, peering into their unnecessarily obscure thoughts
never making eye contact
never a smile or nod
because
noticing others is for commoners.

As they wait, staring with glass-less eyeglasses, they yearn...
they hope someone else will speak first,
break the silence
because
talking, communicating is a sign of weakness.

The first to acknowledge another human being,
to validate another's existence with a glance,
to connect with another human through words
is the first to loose points, to loose status
in the self-important, self-absorbed secular cloister 
where the last one to be human
         wins.