billions of little glowing screens
flashing in billions of dark apartments
getting walked down billions of streets
we bathe in screen time
screens rising and setting
the sun just passing
we push our face boxes around with our thumbs now
melting into hot little screens
cooking in our own information now
selfies like slogans looking for nibbles
young person, you need to be seen being a scene
the structure of everything so exposed
so posed now
we pound on it with our thumbs now
to record videos of pieces breaking off
our cut off pasts left twitching until deletion
big ideas ripped apart and buried in comment threads
streams of bullshit and fact flowing at 40mb/s
and caught in that space between what’s being uploaded
and downloaded
a tender truth
gone in a second
obfuscation covering it in a fuzzy mold
we watch time remaining bars, hourglasses, and spinning circles
while clicking touch pads move hands into fists
bodies start running, blood starts flowing
flicking thumbs, hot little screens
shudders through structures
and cracks in our face boxes
we stand now, posing like columns of information
getting soft edged in the rain of time
frozen in our selves like the marble up on the acropolisÂ
our endless smiles
in a gif’s endless loops
heat flow 