Speaking Freely

Speaking Freely

"Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape,

where anything can be said with no consequences!"

- Elon Musk

No one wants a hellish, free-for-allish

discombobulated conversation

in a nation where the talk is cheap

without a consequence

like the neighbors chew the fat across a picket fence

speaking freely, swapping recipes for favorite dishes

or coordinating movements of militias

commanded by an off-the-wallish apparition

in possession of a trollish, know-it-allish intuition

who jumps the shark and pumps the snark and in addition

plans to re-enact the march on Rome

and to re-evaluate the chromosome 

with an eye to monetizing inattention

as a corresponding disarray of comprehension

does an algorithmic dance in which we frolic

in the manner of a bone-dry alcoholic

saving kids from being fed to Moloch

collapsing us with stories of the stop-the-steal

to re-inflate us with the grievances and certain zeal

that it takes to circulate a catherine wheel.

No one wants that.

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

not sure Mon, think lots of folks might like the Cat's wheel. :)

love the free-wheeling knife out way you go about skewering the vacuity of our times. Social media where nothing of any importance is shared, and grifters find more marks than they ever had dreamed of in their wettest dreams.

[Montag]

Thanks for checking it out Ken. I do like to skewer. E