Don'T Fret It - Write It

lives clogged with gadgetry like drains on overflow young minds scurried atop tech pitchforks that never know a garden hand extensions clutching spectacles of risk, cat airs or lost direction sites that numb and slacken awareness like selfies that nix the problem of real-time interaction web meandering connections that blunt kooky-cool love midst screens clutched in hands like roses because one can't perceive layers of worth beneath where influencers babble in throwaway buying under a stupefying list of 'likes' under images of self interest sometimes tic-toc addiction, time distracting to steal showtime moments like trees pressed against a multi-colored sky or the under valued stillness of reading oh to chew up the grid of "cells" that flicker the world in luminosity, stark and fraying Poem composed June 14, 2023