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Our holiest icons are on our phones,
Wee portals that, with a touch,
Allow us to traverse the globe in milliseconds
Effortlessly and without much thought.
We petition them for comfort,
Amusement, enlightenment;
But how
How
How can pixel-patches
Replace the ministrations of true friends
Whose tenderness transports us further,
Into superlunary realms
Where emotions are superseded by
A kind of cosmic ecstasy?