DISTRACTION

I want to like your liking

But I'm pretty sure

That would make me

Ambivalent

To all of it

I want to celebrate your news

And good tidings

But it's not quite celebration

If I click on it

I want to share

All my words

But for that -

I apparently need paper

For the only kind of things

On Facebook

Are Mr. White

Betty White

And Don Draper

And while they all teach us

A thing, or two

About our world

And all its confusion

They're largely lending

To the problem

For they offer no real

Solutions

Now don't think

I'm off on some tangent

For I'm certainly glad

That we have them

Celebrity smarts

Endless streams of memes

Tho' I'm not very keen

On high-fashion

Still within this realm

There's potential

If we focused more on

The essential

Like societal change

And the informative ways

We could use this new tool

Like a pencil

Sure the pen

Is mightier than the sword

But a pen doesn't have an eraser

And if we're ever to make

Legitimate change

We must first back ourselves

Out of this danger

Then maybe we could change our relation

To the way we have this conversation

Change the way things have all been neglected

With the fact that we're all now connected

Otherwise all that has happened

Is we've found yet another

Contraption

To keep us from health

And maligned to ourselves

With just another

Goddamn

Distraction