I Think I'm Supposed to Like This Movie

I think I’m supposed

To like this movie

But I really have no idea

According to who
I present myself to be

This movie

Is totally in keeping

With my identity

And yet, uh,

I don’t, uh

Like it

I think I don’t

But I also think I should

Should thinking I should

Mean that I should

Or is it just thinking?

Could thinking I should

Be the same as liking it?

If you put a piece of chocolate

In your mouth

And you go--

Mmm I think I like this

It means you like it

Right?

But I guess if you say--

Mmm I think I like this

But I don’t

Then it really means

You didn’t like it

Right?

I’m just not sure

What to do

Because at some point

Somebody’s going to ask me

If I liked this movie

And by ‘Somebody’s gonna ask’

What I mean is that

Somebody’s going to talk about it

On social media

And I’m going to feel obligated

To also say something

So people know how I feel

Because I’m a transparent person

Who believes in transparency

And believes that public opinions

Are us exercising our rights

As Americans

To tell people

When we liked something

They didn’t like

Or hate a tv show

They say is meaningful to them

So I have to come up with

What I’m going to say

About why I like

This movie I don’t like

I just wish I had paid attention

During high school English

When they were teaching us

How to think critically

Instead of just think

You know I went back

And watched that movie again

To see if I could figure out

Why I didn’t like it

When I’m not supposed

To not like it

And I don’t know why

But I liked it even less

And yet I could see

Why I was supposed to like it

Even more than I did the first time

And all these people

Who I know don’t like the movie

Are saying they like it

And they’re all being

Such fakes about it

And I don’t start catching up to them

Pretty soon they’re going to find out

That I dislike it

As much as they do

And then I might as well

Deactivate all my accounts

Because at that point

We have what is called

A crisis

A brand crisis

And I can’t survive that

I can’t have a brand crisis right now

I just barely survived

Posting that photo of a sunset

That I thought was pretty

Not even realizing

That one of the clouds in the back

Looked like a swastika

Do you have any idea

The damage control

I had to do?

I need to get back into

The conversation

The positive conversation

The right conversation

I need to like that movie

And if I can’t like it

I need to at least decide why

So I can come up with a hot take about it

If I have to dislike it

I have to have an original reason

To dislike it

Or I have to like it

Which is so much easier

Because nobody expects you

To be interesting

If you like something

You can just like it

I’m telling you

It’s so much

Easier