Tag Archives: social media

Face Me on Twitbook

 

I still listen to cassettes on my Walkman —

so wake me up when the next big thing develops . . .

 

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 six
(my 7th missed)

u banned my width
i book your face
u twittered on
she save 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 skyped our souls
and interfaced.

 

PROMPT #17: write a poem that features forgotten technology

(You can download it for free.)

March of the Smart Simian

I am re-posting previous work during March.
Since 2014, I’ve published 30 original poems
for National Poetry Writing Month every April.

You can read more by clicking the NaPoWriMo widgets to the right ▶

 

Planet of the Smartphones
funny-monkey-1

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

Linked In vs. Let Out

It’s about loving what you do for being who you are, tooting your own horn to celebrate yourself as you tumble out of your blog right on your Facebook. It’s all about the you in you showcasing  your own self to show what you got and prove why you‘re the star. The next big thing in social media: it’s so over now. The new platform was old hat before you even upped the stats while tipping your hat to the old social platforms. Why? Content. It’s all about posting original content so you can get caught in your social media network, haul yourself to shore, and fillet yourself on Twitter. It’s about drinking outside of the box, parked, with a beer on your dashboard. Upping the stat-check until the chat stacks its own status update without you. It’s about getting the apps BEFORE they are released so you get in on the ground floor as they leap from the burning upper levels. It’s about following yourself until they know that you know that the blind are leading the ditch-diggers to water. Work smart, fish smart, let the net do the work as you socially engage the fish community on social media.

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  • Boosted posts do well if you want posts to boost more frequently than existing fans or their friends.

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