Tuesday, June 1, 2021

LABOR-SAVING DEVICES

As if to 
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.