Screens
No more outrage, desensitized
Yet
Stuck in mode
Gestural utterances
Carrying emotive handbags
My mood, my humor, my ethics and politics and religious upbringing,
my me,
Flung as if to be rid
Offerings of fire over
Pyrrhic
Screens
Cordoning off primates
Yet
Recreating
A natural habitat
Within language and time
With grass and rocks, with unhunted and ungathered food, with me,
Flung as if to be rid
Observers repulsed and amused
Behind…
Screens
Representations
Yet
Captivating
True and becoming
Untrue and not again
Puts will, failing, success and adapting, persistence before me,
Flung as if to be rid
Gesture assuming
Real…
Screens
Amplifying critical
Yet
Exposing stuck
Positions in space, dependent
On sticky shadowy reasons
Our hope, our dahlias, our obscure homilies and brimming, lush
abnegations,
Flung as if to be rid
Begetting with power
Off.