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Mar 2019
that's the beauty about writing,
and why I'd be sooner found
dead than making a youtube
video, exercising m'eh
   right of free speech...
       right... talking into
a computer screen,
   alone, in a room...
            if t.v. is so outdated...
did any of these people
watch channel 4's gogglebox?
i watched it once...
   and started freaking out,
as if i were a teen again,
playing the sims,
     finding "god" /
a wormhole,
    when i made the sim
  play the computer...
   whoosh! that **** just
scalped me:
  and all i wanted was either
the feeling of the wind moving
through my hair,
  or in the least: a decent haircut...
the same thing happened to
me watching gogglebox...
   like... voyeurism gone wrong,
a nightmarish version
     of Sartre's keyhole...
        (yes, the computer keyboard
was an evolution of the typewriter,
but touch skin interface
of either tablet or a tablet device?
that's a devolution,
    it has AUTOCORRECT
   built in it... which is ****...
given: i can spot the mistake
quicker, subsequently correct myself,
which is hard for an algorithm
interface that supposes you're
not bright enough to spot it,
and deal with it with a simple
button: DEL, that button,
  just above ENTER);
      well... the t.v. will come
to be the once grand
   Promethean fireplace,
   a place of congregation,
where people look at some shared
"experience" and start talking,
already deviating from
the English idiosyncrasy
of starting "the" polite society
with the topic of: weather.
       mind you, these youtube
"journalists",
  vulture journalism,
               bedroom journalism...
     sure...
        is the sunday times
    on the ****-list of these people...
i just read about footballers
  dying on th pitch from exhaustion...
just because Qatar felt like
staging the FIFA farce world cup
for a mere 400 million bribe...
    or... how no one wants to ask
about the whereabouts of
     the queen of morocco...
           because the king just feels
like visiting knightsbridge
     (the only part of london he knows),
having flown over with his
missing-spare-parts sports car,
to rev and cruise down the streets
with a some minor members
of the saudi royal family...
   while ***** 'arry flew,
somewhere, in a chopper...
    to give a speech about global
warming...
       mainstream... sure...
     centre right...
   you really need to buy one
newspaper in england,
   and... only on a particular day...
sunday!
      so much for these youtube
commentators, when its printed press
on a Sunday.
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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