Excellent free verse Fragmentation : Interconnectivity by estory

Fingers on the keys of keyboards strung together by the cables Across fiber optic networks On the all encompassing internet Speak of friends and groups of friends On facebook, twitter, youtube feeds 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Every month of every year Online in the internet, Remote virtual reality Checks and balances deleted, Recompiled, rerouted, sent Across the spans of the web Of advertisements, calendars of events, Shopping lists, credit card numbers, Personal indentification Exchanged for bitcoins Exchanged for antidepressants Exchanged for Facebook photos, instagram messages, Google, hotbox topics, domains Ever expanding domains And surveillance tecniques practiced Across the street Strung with coaxial cables Connected into the world wide Web Me, you, they, we Interacting within Streams of data Manipulated by protocols And controls On/off Shared, deleted, Groups of friends You never meet In person Speak in terms and terminology Behind the masks Of generated personnas In the social media space Connected on the internet. Recognized Author Notes A poem of communication and relationships on the internet, in a mechanized style, reflecting the nature of the experience of the digital world. estory

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