Heads Down, Engaged To Screen, Remote

Tanka Folk Heads Down in Flocks waders stoop heads down feeding uncoupled in flock. like texters bowing heads down to worship screen folk disengaged with here and now Heads Down, Engaged to Screen, Remote Like waders at dawn sifting mud with heads-down stance, Modern folk in flocks with heads down, peer at screens With thumbs a-tapping, eyes engaged with friends on screen remote But what of the here and now? Those poor folk you are with, are ostracised, displaced by 'You've got mail', subplanted by there and then. It is worrying how screen worship has become such a priority. It is infectuous when others all around you do it. Interuptions to conversations now an accepted interlude, not seen to be rude, when message calls with bongs and rings, demand heads-down bowing stoop to worship screens.