Storm's a Comin

Storm's a Comin

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Online Profiles

Proximity through pixels, we have transformative exchanges

where we craft, create, design, develop, evolve, imagine

who we want to be


without confinements of honesty or bias. Marvelous and terrible,

there is a discernible fracture—a rupture in the real.


An escape,

a fantasia,

a divide of self stitched together by RSS feeds.

This is how we spend out time.


No letters to lovers. No cards for occasions.

Slave to convenience, a shallow communication

where we slip into contrived comments and responses

without any confrontation.


There is distant hardness here, an artificial

sterility that has become sufficient, not satisfying.

“The personal touch” now an electronic pulse

of egomaniacal absorption. Conversations on

summertime porches slip to status updates,

self serving confessionals, nan0-second ephemera.


Strangers plugging in with millions without neighbors.

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