Sociopath media

Poem for the week, 30 January 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Sociopath media

My wall's a stream of platitudes,
those mass-produced collectables
viewed through heroic spectacles,
waving a flag and a god and a bloody big gun.

Each day turns into saccharin,
a box to put your feelings in,
where truth is out, replaced by spin,
refreshed non-information dressed as favourited fun.

Like me and fill your database
with status, feeling, time, and place.
We're free because we share our face
in terabyte-size clouds where clever algorithms run.

Other poetry by this author:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: lyrics of love and loss
Those Footsteps Behind: around the world in 50 poems

See more at http://brucemarsland.com