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Chronically connected and severely distracted

I open the blinds and see the world - in return, what

does the world see? It sees me, and all my splendid, split

personalities, living these amazing times, of amazing

pleasures, in which we tweet tweets, and post posts re

ego-trips and copyrighted links, videos and things; and,

as stray dogs, we ramble randomly, and all the time,  

living in our infinite worlds, of infinite lanes, till infinity;

yet we suffer so much pain.

 

Our Shih Tzus take us on extended walks, firmly leashed

to our Koss plugs, as we drone cool tunes on multihued

iPods, iPhones buzzing ringtones of tittering babies,

stolid kings and hyperactive frogs, which would all make

my eighty-six year old dad want to gag; we fly

ultralight megaplanes at the sonic sound of speed,

through virtual and real space, connecting dots at low-

cost prices, while we belt-up, gear-up, gulp Gaga and

gorge heat-inducted meals of deer, horse and over-

promoted crap; and then, wow surprisingly, we are all

so unsatisfied.

 

We consciously all move-in together, and **** on end,

like statistical sheep, pre-married, unloving, and broken

up, and justify it all, to ourselves, with our fully

stretched spandex morality, over low-carb brunches

@Starbucks, two 14” screens of separation; we paint

pornographic images of virgins, all called Mary, in the

name of art, and, white-clad, **** babes and alter-boys,

and penetrate each other, first with our fingers, deeply,

then superficially, without even wondering, for a

zeptosecond, why we can’t stand one another any

longer.

 

We crank-up dependencies, like high street mainliners,

shamming and slaughtering for neurotoxic fixes of

smileys and Crystal on billion-dollar Kogo yachts, while

we all just pedal on, dispassionately, down and over

interior canals, to the core of our hocked, abbrev lives,

chronically connected and severely distracted, in

aromatic polymer bubbles, heedlessly cruising through

comic-strip farms of mock vegetables, surely to nowhere

and towards no one; and quite frankly, the world laughs

at all this, and sobs, and so do I.

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May 5, 2012
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