Real People

[brandontoh]

Where have all the real people gone?
Are they out buying groceries to make their real meals? -- Real meals just seem a little weird to me. Like, how does it allude to people being fake? The rest of the poem has quite a strong message and good imageries, but this one line just doesn't cut it for me.
Are they out making money to pay their real bills? -- This, on the other hand, I totally get. It seems to say that people are so engrossed in all the monetary and economic thingamajit that they become their faces instead.
Have their cars broken down from not going anywhere? -- I really like this line too. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but I'm deriving various messages from each line. It may be that I'm overthinking it though.
Are they washing their real faces and drying their real hair?
Do the real people have real children who want to grow up
To live in real houses on Diversey and Chattuck? -- I know the repetition of 'real' is intentional, but in my opinion it doesn't work as well as it's supposed to. Perhaps you can try to mix it up a bit, and not use 'real' so much. This makes the poem more subtle and make the imageries more powerful I believe.
Do they sleep in real beds and dream in black and white?
Do they ever smoke cigarettes or get into fights?
Have they walked down real sidewalks, have they crossed real streets?
Are they on their way to real places with other real people to meet?
Do the real people read real books and write real words?
Do they sit on real park benches and feed real birds? -- Once again, on the repetition of 'real'.
Where have they gone? Are they really this hard to find?
Are the real people still here, or have I just lost my mind? -- Nice finish. It's almost cliche, but luckily not. It's a cliche topic, but you managed to give some form of freshness to it.

Overall, I think the things pulling the poem down are the abundance of 'real'. Also, you can try cutting the excess from some of the lines. For example, after the sleeping and dreaming line, you can shorten the next one to just 'smoke cigarettes or get into fights?'. I'm not sure the wordiness is intentional or not though, so it's up to you. Personally there are a lot of words I'd remove from the poem. Then again, I'm not too acquainted with poems like these, so yeah. Hope I'm of help, and thanks for the read! =)