June 19, 2013 
The images streaming on TV are better
they don’t
talk back
they aren’t
avante garde Nail Art
they’re barred
from grey real estate
they can’t
erect unsanctioned billboards
they won’t
spit in cross winds
and picture in picture strictly up to me.
It’s a silk-free area
full of needled sow
void of virtual pets
minus personal lies
missing obligation
Its airbrushed projections an agreed upon deception
not individuated
ideologies comprising a global society for which
there is frankly no evidence…
so grand, though!
They need an E like venti latte, grande
A quest for constant audience
that rings more hollow
than donut holes
as spherical as a
sphincter
and kissably starred like that, too.
Host growing more obsolete by the day
not up…
Just like the baby that died in China
while its virtual sibling garnered all the attention
The one shipped stateside
stamped with the
tired trademark
although the death thing, you know,
made a DPI infant preferable in that instance.
©Karen Robiscoe
Charron's Chatter 
this made me sad. especially the part about the child. it’s sad, isn’t it, what society has come to?
Super sad. Maybe most of all that as it expands, galaxy-like, those that remember how it used to be are fewer and fewer and so the discrepancy between now and then is utterly lost. The Internet Age has taken firm root.
Also. That line about the baby at the end is true. I watched a > teeny < bit of Anderson Cooper the other night, and saw it. Apparently a family over in China that was paid to be parents of a virtual baby–as an online presence, I guess–went away for a day to some convention or something for this fake baby, and their real baby, alone and neglected at home, died from I can't remember what–but I am sure it is on the web somewhere in conjunction with Cooper's name. Dehydration or starvation or something. Amazingly horrible.
I mostly can't watch the news.
I know, I’d heard about the baby. That’s why it was so sad for me, because i knew it wasn’t just a wittily constructed line – it actually happened. The news and I don’t mix so well either, but I try to keep up, if for no other reason than to watch the debates and see what the rest of the world thinks. Thanks for putting this out there.
Well summing it all up then Karen! Way to go. Love it! You shine (of course) !!!! xx
picking crayons from the blues & blacks on this one…thanks Penny.
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