The past couple of days I’ve been too busy with other things, Making applesauce, school shopping and so on to really think much about posting. I will just offer up this for your entertainment today:
Restless quest
For knowledge?
Why can we
Never resist
Clicking that link?
Why do we yearn
To know every detail
Of everyone?s
Life and thought?
We can?t stop clicking
The reload button
Again?and again?and again.
?Surely someone
Posted
Something
New
In the last thirty seconds.?
Quick!
What?s going on that
I can ?like?
Or comment on?
Proving myself a pulse.
How artificial!
(or artificial seeming
Since some at least
Of our endless seeming of ?community
Does seem to spill over into real life)
Sometimes we are there?
Beyond the webbed page
Where we spill
Our hearts
Or other?s hearts
As pleases us
In pithy status updates
Likes
Wordy comments
and Emoticons
Sometimes we still reach
For real, human touch
For the pain and beauty
Of Presence in the physical
Mostly though we
Click
And
Click again
Flogging fainting feelings
To forfeiture of life.
And of course this morphed as I was typing it…not sure it says what I’m trying to say now, or maybe it does…