Digiverse

Tech-themed: "It is this divine side of man, his inward action, which means everything, not a mass of information" - Kierkegaard.

Encyclopedic mainframes /Lap-top heads

Power-boxes for multitudinous outlets, plugs, chargers

Conduits manipulating/Fiber-optic arteries /Artificial energy

ZAP/Pale lights/Computers aglow in dark

cloistered bedrooms/Powered pacemakers stalling at microwaves/Electrocuted blood - cookied fantasies

Ads proclaiming everything free!
Pharmaceutical elixirs for limpness, lumpiness, loneliness
Snake-oil for suffering/Nigerian kings, Syrian refugees
Pornography, clever memes, whimsical gifs, shocking news, witty banter/Socio-politic-religous-diatribes
Spewing on every thread

Existential vomit. /Aroma-less cuisines
Vacuumed vacations/Youtubed communions/Suicide selfies.

 Crucifixdrones - pedolandia
Jdate.POF.AshleyMadison.Match. Eharmony.SpeedDate.OKcupid
CG. Missed encounters...
Serial killers, /Pixalated p*****s, vein-throbbed dick shots, cardboard gloryholes

Instagramed I/Inviolate I/Internet I
 
I    I     I

No sweaty arm pits, cottage cheese, gray nose hairs or belly fat
Computer [ScreenShot]
While behind, posters hang: The Doors, Tupac, NIN, The Smiths, Hendrix, Joy Division, Nirvana

HandshapedHeart.//2D souls/Text-dating
144 word manifestos /#revolutions/Archetype emoticons

Doodled centaurs /Caged in matrices

Transcendental notes/Need a hit/Of internet smack

A line, a pinch, a drag/A like, a comment, a kudos
A reply, a thumbs up, a share, a poke/One measly view
Baby, come on, give me a fix/Just one
Notification: ding-beep-buzzzz
I want to dissolve like alka-seltzer in tap water
Otherwise I'm a used-up toothpaste tube
Sitting in a dank medicine cabinet

If not, I am/A stick-figure created from matches
Drowning in a drum of gasoline

Not buried beneath pregnant soil
No. dumped into blue recycling bins.

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Author's Note

This is a pretty raw version, but as always, whatever comes to mind.

Reviews

[Enigmatic Amor]

The title is very fitting. The flow fit with the halting choppiness of the menu of technological refuse.

The last line was perfect!

For me, it was a bit long. But I suppose that mirrors the manner in which the internet survives in its endless array.

[Alessander]

Thanks, EA. I actually had to play with the length a bit. I wanted to give a glimpse into the theme, but without being totally comprehensive (given that the internet and tech is practically limitless). Had to straddle a bit, but I'll see if anything unnecessary can be chopped off.

Thxs again.

[Enigmatic Amor]

It is your work, of course. I just felt a little lost in the middle....focus shifted. But then again, that also happens on the internet!

[Alessander]

Form follows content lol

[Matching Socks]

F'n love it! Love the whole tech theme. I've got a few under construction.
Syntax Error was a bit of cute fluff but didn't go deep into a tech theme.

You nailed a lot of it though...
I can't believe you left out the "poke" and the "twit, tweet, twat"
The vibrating game controllers... ;)

Awesome write. Loved it. Resembles our world for sure.

[Alessander]

Ah, shoot, I DID have a poke. You should see my notes lol I'll put that in right away because that is perhaps THE most recognizable form of contact in modern society lol

Awesome. Thanks for checking it out.

[Matching Socks]

Shoot I missed it, it was so fast paced.

[Matching Socks]

Yeah I looked back it was there...