21st Century Blues

Sitting in your air conditioning,

in front of your television screen,

admiring your reflection in the cinematic silver,

 

or in your facebook’s timeline,

.           or your twitter’s feed,

.           or your instagram filter.

 

People in glass houses

throwing out trolling lines

virtually protected from (reality).

 

The signal:noise ratio,

it’s all fake news,

21st century blues.

Author: Mark William Jackson

Mark William Jackson's work has appeared in various print and online journals, including Best Australian Poems 2011, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Popshot (UK), Rabbit, Page Seventeen, SpeedPoets and The Diamond & the Thief. Mark's debut poetry collection "The Frequency of God" is available now through all major outlets, see https://markwmjackson.com/the-frequency-of-god-is-now-available/ for details.

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