If you want readers,

–if you really do–

skip pen & paper,
 
 
Like a stone

and kibosh keypunch,

hunt and peck and hunt and peck and

forget every shade of black and white there is, too, or at the very least smudge it,

and hunt and peck and hunt

a little

employ its outline, and

peck

at most, and then

immediately dry erase,

creating some double-duty diversion to redirect—say:

Look over there! Is that (a) well-aimed bookend coming for ya?

as an unconscious reader is

>this close<

to sub-text

and write in color!

High definition color!

Technicolor

…

ahh

…

color!

Code that chrome

poem

and

pantone those

prose pair a’ graphs

and

Tem·pur·ify this tittled

text, and

–f*ck ‘em if they call it graffiti, because is it really?

There’s nothing gray about it, and any true feat involved in an ersatz emoji world,

It’s in Webster’s now

the better.

emoji

The more hue·manity

–the best.

©Karen Robiscoe