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What The News Won’t Tell You

Mass media provides

A service in which they

Share public information

Of what happens every day.

But the news is not reliable

To show an uncomfortable scoop

Like the hundreds of would-be bombers

Who thought “nah, I gotta poop.”

No matter how they try

And no matter how they zoom

Cameras never show a person

Standing in an empty room.

They won’t report this poem

On MSNBC.

They won’t tell other countries

About you, him, her, and me.

So I spend time on Facebook

‘Cause the news is relevant there

Until I see pics my friend’s friend liked

And then even I don’t care.

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You Have 6,029 New Messages

Have you ever made a comment

On a Facebook post and seen

It explode into the biggest thing

Since someone refried a bean?

For the next ten days your inbox

Says a bunch of strangers think

It’ll be fantastic

(Except Manuel, who wants it to stink).

You try to send it all to spam.

You turn notifications off,

But the post keeps drawing comment

And the Universe does scoff.

You know it won’t be ending soon,

And all you can do is wait.

I commented on a post like that.

In fact, I did on eight…

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I’m An Outdoorsy Type

Sitting in the park

Amidst green and verdant trees

Checking my Facebook.

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I’m An Outdoorsy Type

Sitting in the park

Amidst green and verdant trees

Checking my Facebook.

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Facebook Updates

I sat six hours in a car

To go and visit somewhere far.

It didn’t rain. It didn’t snow.

I just thought you ought to know.

  
(Not actually my dinner).

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Facebook Ads

I did a google search

For Men’s Wearhouse at the mall.

That was 16 months ago,

And it’s still here on my wall.

I looked to buy a negligee

Just as a friendly gift.

Now I get twelve ads a day

Through which I must sift.

I looked up local dry cleaners,

And now endure the taunt

Of “targeted ads” for dry cleaning

In Georgia and Vermont.

I searched my ex’s name as well

Out of curiosity.

Not only did I regret it then,

But now I literally can’t unsee.

And where the Chippendales ad

Came from, I can’t guess,

But now it is a daily part

Of my social network’s mess.

I cleared my cookies and my cache,

Reset my “ad I.D.”

I still get ads on my Facebook wall,

But at least they’re not for me.

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To The Advocates, From The Rest Of Us

Hush little humans
On your little web.
I’ve heard what you have to say.
I get all your points
About women’s equality
And equal marriage for the gay.

I get that you love
Your body and stuff.
I don’t mind pictures of your meal.
Just don’t be expectant
That your Upworthy link
Is enough to make me squeal.

I’m all for justice,
I’m all for change,
And I’ll give all your causes a look.
I just wish for a day
Your beliefs went away
And I could be bourgeois on Facebook.

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