Hey Siri, what’s trending?
“One moment, please. Here’s what I found:”
Snapchat only lasts ten seconds
Longer than your attention span, only 8 seconds
All these smartphones, on your smartphone
(Don’t ask where it’s from)
Keep scrolling for a few more seconds…
Now you’re at a concert
Watching, laughing, posting
Watching that concert through your smartphone
through another smartphone
Keep scrolling
On your smartphone
Like that comment on Facebook
But don’t look too far in that terms and conditions —
Or you’ll find all your data gone
Data gone
Limit reached
Lost all your gigabytes but you gotta
Double tap that insta
make sure everything picta—
perfect
So you gotta go unlimited
Flash
Smile at the Camera
Put on the filter
Touch it up
Post it
Keep scrolling
At a friends house
Decide to go out at a vegan place in the city
Take an Uber there
Order in
Say to the waiter, “No straw please, For the environment. You know?”
So your food arrives, but first
Open up the camera
Take a picture
Put on a filter
Post it
Caption it
#TimeToEat
At the table face glued to a screen
Don’t look up if you want a conversation
Like your whole nation
Keeping your eyes on one location
Ding!
Notification
LOL 😆
Notification
Post has a new like
Ding!
Get a shot of dopamine
Another notification
Dopamine, dopamine
Keep scrolling
Keep scrolling
Keep scrolling
Note from the poet: I wrote this poem a while ago, and reading it now kind of makes me cringe. I thought I’d share it anyway.