Sunday, March 29, 2020

Withdrawal

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES



Withdrawal

The great cultural experiment begins
Can we survive without sporting events
Without plays and movies
Without concerts and rallies
Without lectures and poetry readings
Without schools and universities
Without gatherings of any kind

We are social creatures
We exult in vicarious victories
We mourn vicarious defeat
We exist by watching others watching ourselves
We affirm our humanity by observing others
reflecting our place in the world

Who are we without circles of society?
Can we satisfy our needs through
social media and virtual reality?

We have begun our lives as experimental
subjects crash test dummies laboratory rats
like Pavlov’s dogs

We have become raw data to be
processed dissected and analyzed

We are withdrawing cold turkey
from our addictions and some of us
will not get out alive

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