Internet Age Indifference

Internet Age Indifference by Emily

Internet age telepathy

Detonates a peppering of culture bombs

Simultaneously

A child lacing up sneakers with ineptness

A tidal wave devouring coastline with relish

Consuming livelihood down to the bone,

Then sucking out the marrow with watery lips

A mother is cradling her ash-skinned infant

In famine-weakened arms she rocks him

Keeping time to an invisible pendulum

Swinging slowly, so desperately slowly

Down to the last labored breath

Of westernized dismissal

Internet age apathy

Hibernates soundlessly amidst pixels

And trite advertisements of fad diets

An old woman stares at a glossy panoramic screen

Waiting expectantly for the final loop

To slide between the bumbling fingers of her first grandchild

She sings her praise to the blank screen

Powering down her lap top

Like folding a newspaper

She strides into her kitchen

Humming “How Great Thou Art” while nibbling

On a peanut butter cookie

The crumbs fall unacknowledged to the heated linoleum floor