Tweetworld

Having a limit of only so many

Characters when you're tweeting

Means that you must be concise,

Which can be self-defeating.

 

Why so short? Is it that

People don’t delight

In spending too much time reading

Words that others write?

 

Can you remember the days when TV

Programs could be seen

Without obnoxious tweets being

Flashed upon the screen?

 

Or when the news was real news

And not simply a lot

Of tweets from viewers watching the program

And saying what they thought?

 

Who cares what the viewers think?

Just give us the news--

Credible reports filled with

Facts and interviews.

 

Trump loves his tweets, we know.

Through tweets he vents his wrath,

Although he sometimes comes off sounding

Like a sociopath.

 

Regarding his attention span,

Would it be so wrong

To say that it is only one hundred

Forty characters long?

 

Welcome to Tweetworld--a place where

Specifics are obsolete.

And heaven forbid that anything written

Be longer than a tweet!

 

(10-25-17) By Bob B