Word Drunk And Image High

Word drunk and image high

brains walk digital slums

where too much is too little.

Petitions drop in e-mails

with “this must” confetti and

shame shock toward wallets.

Nothing new under the sun…

Rome gets too big for its boots

chasing oil through Cheeto tracks.

Dumming down has its own cable channel,

glassy eyes tablet read into cameras,

Literacy Died On A Twitter Feed.

In the apathy we’ve become seeds speak,

“Tomorrow can be brighter than blindness,

It will take flesh and bone working together in real time.”

©Susie Clevenger 2017

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