Planet of the Smartphones

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A signifying monkey grunted
(keyboard-clever, morals stunted)

from his perch in a digital tree.
And next, did text (quite rapidly):

“Courtship rituals won’t suffice.
Face-to-face can’t break the ice.

Instagram me! Tweet me up…
friend me, like me, buttercup.

Sentences are so outmoded –
take too long to get decoded;

primate sexting hits me faster,
steers me towards your hot disaster.

Female monkeys: send an image.
(Ain’t got time for useless verbiage…)

if your snout just might unseat me
tweet me, greet me – don’t delete me.”

Then, unpeeling fresh banana,
searched his screen for Vox Humana…

banana-phone

Cuneiform: Textual Intercourse

u text me dis
I text u dat
She dissed my dis
I sent last Sat.

u LOL’ed
on down the list
i sexted sixth
(my 7th missed)

u banned my width
i booked your face
u twittered on
she saved my space

u scrolled me down
he tweeted smiles
we USB’ed
recharging miles . . .

u giga-bit
encrypted files;
i saved as mine
and cached denials

in digital
we re-erased
then Zoomed our souls
and interfaced.

 

Sometimes

…I really wonder why it is

that one day I get a reasonable number of views –

but when I bring out my BEST — 

and then check the stats:

… crickets… … …. …