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Look at me.
Look at me.
Look.
Pick up the phone.
Put down the book.
Hang my heart
For “likes”
On fanatical fishhooks.
See my pet;
See my dinner;
& don’t forget
How much I’m thinner.
Scroll & scroll & scroll.
Internet lusting;
Internet trolls
That keep thrusting
Their generic junk
Into my DM’s.
Wanna see me face to face?
Give me a week’s notice,
Or Lord I’m cursin’ them
When they show up at my place.
Piss off, you. You person
Of normal encounters;
I’m done with the downers
Of “social interactions.”
Soup-for-the-soul
Wholesome reactions
Like handicapped figure skaters —
Love’s on one end with warm embrace,
But the other is haters
when you fall on your face.