Sock Puppet Biodigital

Scary places

Something blew my mind
Blew it to a hundred fragments
Big like a meatshop eruption online

I understand the need to escape
I do it all the time
But understanding the need to pretend?
It evades me

Anonymity for safety, anonymity for whoring
To me the virtual life can get straight up boring
But to some it's a life, more real than breathing
To some it's an out from their inadequacies
It's a shroud and a good one, after all it's a huge galaxy

Even farther, the desire to pretend in secret is one thing
But the desire to pretend in public seemed appalling
It's a huge leap of logic for me, this sock puppet play
It's something not black, not white, something not grey
I try for a second to understand what causes them
To retreat into their biodigital microcosm

I can't do it
I can't bend at that angle
I'm generally excited by the world and it's 8 billion
But I could only think "My god, what have we done?"

Author's Note

So I have a tumblr that is devoted to girls. I posted this picture of a suicide girl that I really like and someone reblogged it and put a caption on it talking in the first person about the photo. I saw it and I thought weird maybe she has a tumblr and she found me? I go to the tumblr page and read that the blog is a roleplay blog and that person isn't her at all. And it freaked me out. Alot. That and the movie Catfish, and one of my facebook friends having to deal with imitators that keep pretending to be her. Had to write about it.

Reviews

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internet creeps/posers cant be trusted....gosh,,,,,

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woah, deep ............... the authors note gave a thrill id depression through my spine :x

[Bare trees]

Lots of people pretend to be something their not. Especially on the web. They think it's safe so they continue. Sometimes to the detriment of other people unfortunately. Nice poem.

[Christina]

This is an interesting concept, one who pretends to be someone they aren't. I found the rhyme was somewhat forced and distracting but, I felt the emotion behind this piece and can sense the cathartic nature behind this poem.

[A. V. Madison]

Awh hunny, I'm so sorry. Thats the prob with tumblr.

[Wren]

I like this too. Looking at the internet from an outside perspective. We never think of things big picture, we only tend to look at things as they effect us. It is interesting to read it from that perspective.

Thank you for sharing