17th February 2016
My postmodern friend
By Joely Thomas
You’re always there but never quite here. Letters flow through your veins as you breath rhetoric; your heart an amalgam of emojis I sit… waiting… watching… … anticipating the response… My solitude satiated with interaction, I’m no longer sure if I am ever alone. And I wonder… what makes you different from the other skeletons […]
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You’re always there but never quite here.
Letters flow through your veins
as you breath rhetoric;
your heart an amalgam of emojis
I sit… waiting… watching…
… anticipating the response…
My solitude satiated with interaction,
I’m no longer sure if I am ever alone.
And I wonder…
what makes you different from the other skeletons of syntax
what separates you from the screen at which I stare
in a parallel reality, what significance can conversation ever bear
Perhaps all either of us desire is words to fill the silence.
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