Saturday, August 28, 2010

An Uneasiness

We add friendship with clicks

and looks at pics to see if they

meet some preconceived aesthetic

of attraction. Chance encounters

at random places are remembered

through half serious adds on some

late night bender. Their random

faces populate feeds easily as

they offer their taste in politics,

love, laughter, and a million

useless things you could care less

about. Some faces are the ghosts

of past lives buried in cobwebbed

recollections best left in the attic.

We can't help but watch these faces

grow older, get married, have kids,

get fatter, divorced, while grinding

out a living at the cost of their lives.

This screen sees me, through me,

into me. Our eyes meet but,

we never do.

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