Due to the worldwide known idea which states that postmodern poetry is characterized by linguistic consciousness and by the deconstruction of the creative process, this paper studies how the Spanish poets born around 1980 work with the language and with the lyric genre conventions.  Specially, this paper focuses on the de-automatization of phraseological units, on the explicit corrections and on the ironical references to the writing process. These three mechanisms, which present a demystified vision of the lyric genre, produce a breakup of expectations. The de-automatization of phraseological units acquires metalinguistic and meta-poetic interest because it is a renovation of the poetic expression in the writers born around 1980. Besides, the express corrections and the ironic references to the writing process highlight that the lyric genre doesn?t have a previous discursive pattern or pre-established conditions of reception.