(Re)voltage

One day
it just happened.
          The tides that rose
could not be denied
by
  terrestrials.

Nobody even discussed it
openly
          how they felt
about it,             genuinely,
how they made
          it Stop.

The help?
Thanks,
             but no thanks.
The directions?
listen, don't
           talk to me, show me
what you sorted out
that I must like.

Enough of the misinterpretation
of
Results.

We can no longer be convinced
you were there to
                            Help us All
or recommend a
                           replacement
hip, knee, mate, job,
car, and family or definition
                       for the word
connections.

Don't be shocked
when all has been sifted through the
screens
and we say-
Let's do it the old-fashioned way.


Photo credited By Rob Croes / Anefo [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Cool-Aid™

The president watches too much TV
They tell us.
We all do. True
TV keeps us
company,
in a community property kind of way,
like a park-
My cat, ask any dog, they would all agree,
likely
TV is showing something for every one of
Us
Right-

Now,
social media, via the lower channels,
seem more real than virtual-
to many.
Too many
say, there is
something, someone, somewhere,
for every body there too.
And there too
it was always
only you and you.

Then,
TV and the like
asked what We liked-
and we shrugged our stringed shoulders,
some said-I dunno,
You tell Us,
and they did.

Now, the president has found
company,
and there too,
two stringed shoulders
shrug,
I dunno.


Image credit By DonkeyHotey (Donald Trump - Caricature) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Believing in Ghosts

A nice break 

to heal...

The real world awaits

-our authentic attention-

not to mention

(Your) Life is not on(the)line

& is most simply an Alt. identity; 

salty audience driven arrogance

boasting and posting 

egotistic in-

significancies

(please)

 

Pixelated phantasies thrive

in social (media) circles,

round and empty 

vacuum souls.

Dive deeper into delusion,

alternate versions of you illusory

packaged for others to see,  

so-Pretty-are all empty (boxes),

apparitions inside avatars

for show.

Friends, 

Floating in your mainstream

is not what it may seem

carried with the flow

surface deep on Lethes 

and Styx. 

Not only ghosts 

pass through doors

of intangibility.  

Painting by Théodore Chassériau [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.