“The Death of Communication”
By Larry J. Knight, Jr.
Communication is dead.
We stare transfixed at translucent screens
emitting a spectrum of colors imitating rainbows;
they bring the only color to our dull grey lives.
Our veins are ethernet cables, our blood flow
is the electric hum of circuitry. We are hopeless
in a digitized, downloaded, 1080p display society;
we have a technologically advanced
inability to communicate with real people
in real situations, in a reality made more real
by stuff. Our lives are affected by plastic and metal.
Dinners are chat sessions, exhibitions of emoticons;
lunches are emails, tweets are breakfast...
our hearts are iPhones pumping the rich
coded language of ones and zeros; we ctrl alt del
everything and everyone and every emotion.
Love is empty words staring back
from a cold display; the flashing cursor
counting down our last moments of civility.
2013 | Larry J. Knight, Jr.
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