Decline of a Titan
Tamer of fire,
Master of land and sea,
Now spends his days
staring at squiggly lines
on a digital screen
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technology
Morpheus
The words we type
behind digital masks
still betray our human feelings
of that one universal dream
of being more than what we seem.
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Digitally absent
You weren’t there
with your pics
and video clips
you weren’t there
from first note
to encore encore
you,
phone aloft,
weren’t there
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Heart of the Beast
Kill the phone
Eat the answering machine
Devour the heart
To gain its esteem
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#micropoetry #4lines
Google Eyes
looked at him
through
#google eyes
data stream
all there
– was to know
yet, she didn’t see
– birds inside,
she didn’t see.
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To cellphones
ears soundly glued/fishing,catching nets/cell phones becoming today’s/
consummate cigarettes/talking/walking/typing tippy text/status-ing hiatus/social fame/sex
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