deepening

they've been blaming the internet -- time on devices rather than face to face

yet, the internet was meant to bring us together, a larger us than we could see face to face

we tear ourselves apart

over petty disagreements or even huge disagreements

over petty differences of all sorts

over our own insecurities that we fear being seen, while not seeing all the insecurities around us because we're too focused on our own, too sure of rejection to reach out and befriend

and we let all this pettiness destroy our lives rather than enlarge our power to make our world work for all of us by working together

perhaps it is a deathwish we have wished upon each other, and therefore on ourselves.

 

 

Observation

changes the system

framing

an unframeable

flow

 

 

 

I don’t care about “economy”

I care about our society

Are we each and all getting what

we need to be our best,

to have the tools to do the work

to make us thrive?

 

 

 

A writer is a private actor

becoming characters

we can speak through

 

 

 

The force of gravity

The force of social approbation

We hold to these protocols,

to these fundamental rules

that keep us spinning,

give us space, place,

ability to relate,

communicate, become

self-aware.

 

 

 

Layers upon layers of history

Stories of imagined possibilities

and how they grew

 

 

 

10/25-11/8/19