Take It All Away

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Abstract

cket to tell me something unimportant but marked as important by some person on the other end of a cable or the air or the universe streaming nonsense at me every second of every day Take it all away and leave me alone so I can reconnect with myself and the world My world ignored and placated by my own wandering eye</p><p id="e89a">Release me from the crane of constantly looking down at something, anything but what is right in front of me I can’t see you I can’t hear you because I am too busy fulfilling unwarranted needs My life is the slot machine and I allow them to pull more and more each day to stay updated and ahead of the curve But I’ve lost myself inside a tiny computer that holds my hand and encourages me to be someone I’m not because it looks better and we all want to look better online</p><p id="3560">Take it all away and fly it to the cloud The same cloud that holds all of my life’s data in it Then drop it from the cloud and

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let it all smash into a million gigabytes Sweep up the pieces of my logins and bookmarks and cremate them Hand me a book instead Let me use a map Allow me to hail a cab Let me just live for one second without you surveilling everything I do and every word I say Take it all away</p><p id="0b77">© <a href="undefined">Jonathan Greene</a> 2019</p><p id="a274">If you liked this, you might like this as well:</p><div id="3235" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/pick-me-up-put-me-down-d95893681705"> <div> <div> <h2>Pick Me Up, Put Me Down</h2> <div><h3>A Poem</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Gk2QpJS1tVQv5eob)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

A Poem

Unchain me from my own devices Release me from the constant stream of updates and notifications Allow me to live my life again without refreshing No, not a refreshing breath a screen refreshing a screen to see what’s new when what’s right in front of me is being forgotten Bouldered at the bottom of a pit after an avalanche of my own attention deficit Distracted

Take it all away and let me live my life again Let me walk unencumbered Let me guess the time Let me not always be waiting for another ding in my pocket to tell me something unimportant but marked as important by some person on the other end of a cable or the air or the universe streaming nonsense at me every second of every day Take it all away and leave me alone so I can reconnect with myself and the world My world ignored and placated by my own wandering eye

Release me from the crane of constantly looking down at something, anything but what is right in front of me I can’t see you I can’t hear you because I am too busy fulfilling unwarranted needs My life is the slot machine and I allow them to pull more and more each day to stay updated and ahead of the curve But I’ve lost myself inside a tiny computer that holds my hand and encourages me to be someone I’m not because it looks better and we all want to look better online

Take it all away and fly it to the cloud The same cloud that holds all of my life’s data in it Then drop it from the cloud and let it all smash into a million gigabytes Sweep up the pieces of my logins and bookmarks and cremate them Hand me a book instead Let me use a map Allow me to hail a cab Let me just live for one second without you surveilling everything I do and every word I say Take it all away

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