Collection of Dead Facebook Friends

Growing list

Some often forgotten

Some deeply missed

Poetically reflective

Mortician--psychiatrist...

Scratch off one...two, three...

No avoiding life’s off-line inevitability

Even with 5G Wi-Fi capability...

By now, most have at least one

Car wreck--cancer--overdose--gun

Whatever the cause may be

Their cyber fingers still poke at me...

...I listen closely now

Where no voices should be heard...

Sugestively in tune

Vaguely infered

The wind just picked up & sturd

As I text goosepimpled

’Neath a quiet moon

Beneath a dancing tree

Good bud, ear buds & sonic tunes

Resting wrist & device

Down upon my knee

Midnight--light shimmering-

Cascading over frail, fallen leaves

Thoughts ’a forming now

Thier darkest Hallow’s Eve...

...So where now

Shall this go?

---Here I know---

That I die & may decree...

Let my words here-

There spawn

For those future, digital faces

Yet to be booked, let alone born

...O’ social searchers of centuries

Sifting thru exponential misery

Via thy internet, binary divinity...

Witness today’s heresy

Thru timeless philo-poesy...

Nietzsche’s thoughts now

Drill ever deeper into me

What we’ve argued

What I’ve learned

All those I’ve loved

Who got burned...

Lol...

That should read

My cyber gravestone

In a cover photo

Showcasing cobwebs & bones...

Delightfully cryptic!

And beneath it, with it...

A little something

Here---I guess---left to see

Reduced to a meme

Rotten & decomposed

No longer can this fallen zombie post...

However

I reach out my brittle, skeletal hand

With a feathered postscript

Etched into timeless kinetic sand...

Can you appreciate your

Shadowed, media host?

Please pour some down

On thy polutted, but holy ground

In a tributary, honoured toast...

And study this generation

Where no one agreed

Understand a time when

Slaves believed they were free

Sugar--Mountain &

All buried below

A-mass collection

That continues to grow...

!...NOTIFICATION REMINDER...!

Ambiguous emojis &

All kinda ghastly faces

Profiled with crested traces

From desolate remains &

Paranormal, creeping, online spaces

Past memorials I morosely

Thumb back upon

These cyber ghosts & me...

Never to be unfriended

Amid catchy advertisements

So cleverly intended...

...Collection of Dead Facebook Friends

Eerily haunting our feed

Technology decides our needs

Tagged ghouls from

Our dead-ended history

Anual recurrences we so

Obediently scroll back upon

Condemned algorithms

Long after we’re gone...