The September 2007 poetry project consists of writing one poem per day in the month of September and putting it up for public consumption regardless of its state of completion.

Sept 18

by Rachel Levine

Poem 18. I hate my facebook friends

I hate my facebook friends.

They're all Hamlets and Cassandras anyway.

Phonies and social retards,

Reduced to a portrait square and a status update.

"I is free like a bird" "I is tired." "I is as I does."

People I'd rather not talk to, so we have virtuality instead.

Poke, poke, poke.

Look at 187 pictures of me on vacation.

Here, have a beer, make it an iris for your garden.

I'll write on your wall if you write on mine,

And then we can get in on the foodfight,

Or become zombies.

Let's play at being kids without really playing, without really being kids. 

Let's connect without really connecting.

I would read your about me, but it's boring.

©Rachel Levine 2007