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the more repeatedly
we export our self-worth,

the more repeatedly
we import our loneliness.


:::


we take interest
in virtual platforms

of which instantaneously satisfy
our personal-biological-material desires,

foster our seeded insecurities,
expand our impish curiosities,

disseminate calculated opinions,
incapacitate emotional intelligence,

deliver second-hand local and global news,
decrease inner self-contentment,

abandon the present moment,
diminish meaningful conversation,

permit skin-level social selectivity,
enable consumerist tendencies,

re-imagine unappealing realities
with more idealized realities,

and galvanize human connection
with humanized connection.

     lest the human conscience
     becomes more agile and clever

     than the finger-click of a key,
     there is a fear the mountain

     we built will be insurmountable;

     economic, political, and "social"
     society will manifest its ultimate efficiency.

     if the former occurs to its fullest,
     the human spirit will become

     inefficient at true social growth---
     circumventing a constant

     craving for human belongingness.


:::


they made their apartment

a hotel,

so they could make

the world

their playground and heaven

their home.


:::


God is a three-year-old
whom takes a handful of sand

and throws it into the ocean,
allowing you to dissolve

completely in love
on impact.


:::


remember,
love laughs loudest

to those whom wink at it---
understanding in utter ignorance

their inherent ability to love more than.



:::


love is commonplace;
yet, we have made non-love

all else that is common
in its place.


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