BROKEN TELEPHONE


All the screens get between us –
the thrust of tech is to isolate.

In the game of Telephone,
a phrase repeated gets phase distorted.

Let no bot, no algorithm
hijack your mental thrum.

This metaverse is a panopticon for profit seekers –
unsafe for intimacy, swirling with lies and hate.

Drop screens, eye to eye, I to I –
face and meet the person.

Let people see each other,
touch and talk and walk together

in the sun, in the rain,
in a deep red shadow on the Moon.