make up for
all the strip-mining
relentlessly, we are
filling up every crater
with our
avatars—
more and more
food porn,
longer and longer
trains of
Instagram stories,
smarter
and taller and
hungrier children
who never can know
what our names were.
*
Let us create
a "greater awareness"
of the connections between
slavery
and labor-saving
devices.
Progress achieves
a rhythm of its own
almost
by definition.
*
Perhaps our detritus
is harboring
hidden energy.
From now on, don't just bury
your feelings
in words;
touch here
and try to match them up
to each picture.