Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Revised Poem: SINCE YOU DISAPPEARED


SINCE YOU DISAPPEARED

I read your Social Network page where you
mentioned the increase in responsibility
you now have since your promotion.

And my first response was to write
an impulsive-child poem about how you haven’t
bothered to contact me for over two years.

Then, my second response was to think
about your hard work and achievements
and how I gave up too easily and too often.

Now, I have plenty of time to write poems
like this one while you’re doing something
more productive than revisiting bad choices and regrets.

At the very least, I’ve learned to be less childish.

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Recent Poem: BURYING OLD TWEETS AT SEA

listen
hear that sound?
it’s the muffled chug of the tugboat
cruising in the dead of night
to the deepest waters
ready to throw overboard
a giant petrified cloud
filled with microblog speech
with the potential to be weaponized
against the tweeter
who long ago woofed out
bad jokes on taboo topics
angry responses to alt-right trolls
unsafe-in-any-time sexist innuendoes
remarks written/entered in haste
and now rendered officially deceased–
especially if the tweeter works 
for an entertainment company minnow
swallowed by a multinational corporation
>
in the 40s,
Hollywood got scared
censored itself
threw people out of work
over speech on taboo political beliefs
which could be weaponized 
by The Other Side
>
in the late 2010s,
Hollywood gets scared again
censoring itself
scared of the alt-right
frightened by the Murdoch Press
people thrown out of work again
yet more cyber hand-wringing
about what The Other Side can do
with ancient posts from people
who changed and moved on 
faster than the censorious-minded
ever will