Information
        Everyone gets so much information all day
        long that they lose their common sense.
                        —Gertrude Stein

I see another spectacle blocking my view,
another fad slipping into my bed.
The cave walls are filled with conflicting shadows
demanding attention in urgent & dazzling tones.
How small respect has become. It fits our eyes like drones,
while entertainment pumps up our need to be amused.
I feel strings attaching to my heart, tugging me away from what I used to know.
I'm diverted by a spin of words that cover over and are covered by.
Pack oflies. Pack of truths. Information pours
and pours, burying us beneath ourselves.

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from the elephants are asking
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