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    This poem explores how technology and social media have changed human interaction and connection. It describes how people now spend more time online connecting through likes and comments than making real-life connections. While technology allows constant connectivity, it has also made people less present and able to truly feel and experience the world around them. The poem questions if technology will eventually become advanced enough to reverse its effects and make people fully human again.

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    This poem explores how technology and social media have changed human interaction and connection. It describes how people now spend more time online connecting through likes and comments than making real-life connections. While technology allows constant connectivity, it has also made people less present and able to truly feel and experience the world around them. The poem questions if technology will eventually become advanced enough to reverse its effects and make people fully human again.

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    This poem explores how technology and social media have changed human interaction and connection. It describes how people now spend more time online connecting through likes and comments than making real-life connections. While technology allows constant connectivity, it has also made people less present and able to truly feel and experience the world around them. The poem questions if technology will eventually become advanced enough to reverse its effects and make people fully human again.

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    Touchscreen

    by Marshall Soulful Jones

    Introducing the new Apple I person complete with multi touch We used to sprint to pick and store blackberries
    and volume control now we run to the Sprint store to pick Blackberries
    doesn’t it feel good to touch? it’s scary
    doesn’t it feel good to touch? can’t hear the sound of mother nature speaking over all this
    doesn’t it feel good to touch? tweeting
    my world is so digital and along with it is our ability to feel along with it is fleeting
    I have forgotten what that feels like You’d think these headphone jacks inject into flesh
    it used to be hard to connect when friends formed cliques the way we connect to disconnect
    but it’s even more difficult to connect power on
    now that clicks form friends so we are power-less
    But who am I to judge they got us love drugged
    I face Facebook Like e-pills
    more than books face me so we E*TRADE
    hoping to email
    book face the faces e-motion
    I update my status like e-commerce
    420 spaces because now money can buy love
    to prove I’m still breathing for 9.95 a month
    click
    failure to do this daily to proceed to checkout
    means my whole web wide world would forget that I exist click
    but with 3000 friends online to x out where our hearts once where
    only five I can count in real life click
    why wouldn’t I spend more time in a world where there are I’ve uploaded this hug I hope she gets it
    more people that ‘like’ me click
    Wouldn’t you? I’m making love with my wife I hope she’s logged in
    click
    Here, it doesn’t matter I’m holding my daughter over a Skype conference call while
    if I’m an amateur person she’s crying in the crib in the next room
    as long as I have a ‘pro’ file click
    my smile is 50% genuine
    land 50% genuine HD so when my phone goes off of my hip
    You would need Blu-rays to read the whites of my teeth iTouch and iTouch and iTouch because in a world
    but I’m not that focused Where voices are only read
    10 tabs open And laughter is never heard
    hopin’ Or I’m so desperate to feel
    my problems are resolved with a 1600 by 1700 resolution that I hope our Technologic can reverse the universe
    provin’ this is a problem with this evolution until the screens touch me back
    doubled over we used to sit in treetops and maybe it will
    till we swung down to stand upright when our technology is advanced enough …
    then someone slipped a disc to make us human again
    now we’re doubled over at desktops
    from the garden of Eden
    to the branches of Macintosh
    apple picking has always come at a great cost
    iPod iMac iPhone iChat
    I can do all of these things without making eye contact

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