I WAIT FOR INTERNET.
I wait for internet.
Nothing there yet.
I wait for email.
No snail mail.
I wait for media.
Oh, my, tedium.
I wait for contact.
Not chewing tic-tacs.
I wait for internet.
Alone without a safety net.
INTERNET COFFIN.
I am forgotten
Unopened coffin.
I am forgotten
A media knot in.
I am forgotten.
Because I am caught in
Endless loops of an Internet coffin.
I am forgotten.
As I find now more often
In traffic of an internet coffin.
I am forgotten.
Where have I gotten?
Nowhere, nowhere an internet coffin.
TEXTING.
XOXOXO-O!
Is this a kiss that lips do blow?
LOLOLO-L!
No sound laughing. Can you tell?
Get a text, send a text.
I want from this a quick exit.
Short-cut grammar
Makes me stammer.
Thumbs thumping,
Keep on bumping.
Mixing keystrokes.
With text of something.
Missing letters, dots, and symbols.
I’m not as you so nimble.
All I want are ABCs.
A phone’s keypad is not easy.
TELEVISION INTERNET
Television internet.
I say “nyet.”
Your laugh and smile:
In person, stay awhile.
Television internet.
Virtual reality well spent?
Your eyes lovely lively
In person feeling highly.
Television internet.
True reality bent.
Your hands, lips
In person kissing curvaceous hips.
Television internet?
I want no regret.
TECH RETRO
Bit by bytes:
Mega, giga, terabytes.
Devices, peripherals
Units infinitesimal.
Math and science
Their defiance.
Solid algorithms.
Cracks or schisms?
Sims, sd’s, micro-cards
Childrens’ playing yards.
Reality, virtual
Or spiritual?
Heaven evicted from the cloud
Now data in same cloud.
Life with screens.
As reality yells and screams.
Motherboards, batteries, circuitry bound.
Search bar have you found?
WE SHARED MEMES.
We shared memes.
Were these our themes?
We shared tweets.
Were these our treats?
We shared photos on our phones.
Were we in different time zones?
We shared music across our devices.
Our devices for what sacrifices?
All of this we found,
Was not our real playground.
When we held hands,
On our fingers were colorful bands.
As we went out and started to walk,
My gosh, we found we could actually talk!
We threw away our phones
And shared our common hormones!
This in person was a better way to be,
Feeling sexy and happy and hot with glee!
MEDIA
Media no encyclopedia.
Media is tedia.
Remedia.
Greedy – ha!
Media.
I “read ya.”
I “need ya.”
Media.
Buenos “dias”?
Media encyclopedia.
Schizophrenia.
INSTAGRAM.
Instagram.
Photographic spam.
This who I am?
This man?
Instagram.
Scam?
I’m no photo ham.
Give a damn?
Instagram.
Throw away cam?
Sham.
Instagram.
Banned.
Bitter?
We tweet
Not to meet.
Showing off.
Gloating off.
Fifteen words, fame?
Useless game.
Tweeting.
Cheating.
In language.
Showing our baggage.
No nuance.
Just truance.
Where is the Bard?
The guard.
FACEBOOK IS A FAKE BOOK.
total hate.
No response.
No answer.
Facebook is fake.
apathy.
Yes, likes, loves,
But so what?
To strangers.
People in person is what counts!
Yes.
Women.
Men.
Facebook.
No way.
WHAT IS FACEBOOK?
What is Face Book?
A book that looks like a face,
Or a face that looks like a book?
You cannot judge a book by its cover.
You cannot judge a face by its looks.
What is Face Book?
A book is:
Fiction.
Non-fiction.
Current.
Famous.
Forgotten.
What is Face Book?
A depository like a library?
Hardly.
Face Book.
Where is Braille?
Dots. Dashes.
What is Face Book?
FACE KOOK?
STAYING TOGETHER?
Is there anything such as staying together?
Yes. Face Book. Instagram. Twitter. Et Cetera.
Our world — our “planet” — one among many.
Staying together.
How?
Digitally.
But in real life?
When the shit hits the fan
And extinction looms
Will a digital life help us survive?
Staying together on our one home turf.
No one nation’s turf
No one country’s turf.
Our turf.
When the shit hit the fan
And our world is imperiled
Do we part ways or
Are we staying together?
SOCIAL ANXIETY
Social anxiety.
Insecure entirely.
Emotional distress.
No time to rest.
Quiet as an introvert.
Weakened by extroverts.
Shying away to hide,
Hoping no one chides.
Social coward —
All have heard.
Running and retreating
From people and their pleading.
Social insecurity:
Shameful in obscurity.