Your device shines
into the net’s capabilities.
The senseless syndicate
removes sentience from one’s self.
Hours upon hours
dumped into the rectangle.
Screens glisten with allurement
with every tempting occurrence.
Every streak and every tweet
bites away at time’s hourglass.
Ssss!
The last grain fell.
No party animal would support this:
the dehumanization of our cognition.
Yet the degradation of humanity’s conscience
has already begun.
The dust looms ahead,
entering a perpetual cycle of day-lit excitement
and black-blizzard downfall.
No one saw this coming.
“Innocent until proven guilty”
is the hallmark of American democracy.
We all promote our innocence
yet all we show is guilt.
-Michael Wong
I love the alliteration in the line, " The senseless syndicate." That line set the mode of the poem making the poem kind of dark and secretive. That was a great way to add emotion and mood to the poem great job.
ReplyDeleteEach stance of the poem shows different situations in which the central idea or message is presented.
DeleteI like how you used onomatopoeia in the line,"Every streak and every tweet bites away at time’s hourglass.Ssss! The last grain fell." It really sets the mood of the poem which I believe to be dark and intimidating.
ReplyDeleteI love how you incorporated the allusion "it is the hallmark of Americas democracy" into the poem, it adds a lot of depth to it.
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