Wired up to electrical impulses
Distancing you from the world
You’re deaf, unresponsive
Eyes glazed, apathetically dazed.
Buzz de beep doop bodu
Beep beep awakened from your sleep
Thumb twitches
Communicating without speaking
Another beep and you’re back to sleeping
Occasionally flashes of light from
The screen fall across your face
You’re gone. Unresponsive
Ears glazed, otherwise engaged.
Hello? Hi. Hi Hello?
Nudge nudge, why won’t you budge?
Sucked into a world that isn’t ours
Still plenty of guns, fighting and fast cars
Look at that clique with important things to say
All talk and no interaction
You’re dumb, unresponsive
In a crowd, not singled out.
Hang on a sec, can I put you on hold?
Natter natter surrounded by chatter
A rush of conversational clash
As we hold phones to our heads turning to mush.
To touch type is the only type of touch
Networking now has another meaning
You’re numb, unresponsive
Expression bland, to the brush of a hand
Oi oi poke me back!
Pinch punch first of the month
Spending time in a chat room full of people
Physically alone do you get to meet at all?
Just look at what the world has become,
Orally blind and audibly numb.
Completed 2013 longest running poem
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