Tonight’s Poem

It’s the first Monday of the month, so I’m off to my poetry reading at the Napa Bar, and here is the poem I’m going to read tonight (to the tune of circus music, dut dut dada dada dut dut dut dut, dut dut dada dada dut dut dut dut, DUT dada dut dut, DUT dada dut dut, dada dada dada dada dada dada dut dut)

Everybody who signs on to facebook

Opens up a door into an infinite space, look

State your opinions, express your emotions

You might as well just go ahead and piss in the ocean

 

It doesn’t really matter what you say there

Even if you stay there the whole damn day there

What is the meaning, what is the answer

Please share this picture of a little boy with cancer

 

All around the world when people get together

Everybody likes to talk about the weather

Sometimes it’s foggy, sometimes it’s raining

I’m not where you are so just shut up with your complaining

 

 

In the winter, when it’s cold and snowing

It seems like all around the world the wind is blowing

That’s why you have some friends in Australia

Just for being different, you know they’ll never fail ya

 

People like to talk about food on facebook

But they have very different attitudes on facebook

Some post the recipes of what they are makin’

But what is this obsession that some people have with bacon?

 

It’s good to get informed about events and attractions

And it’s kind of cool to be hip to the action

But it’s rather pointless, sucks like a Hoover

When I get invited to poetry readings in Vancouver

 

If you’re posting as your status update

Watching zombie movies and staying up late

You’re a statistic, a part of the mass poll

Even if you think that Mark Zuckerberg’s an asshole

 

Answers to the survey are not so erratic

Actually, it’s rather democratic

You vote for your side, I vote for my side

There was an election and the cats won by a landslide

 

Cats wearing costumes, cats in boxes

Now let’s hear a very silly song about foxes

For a couple days there, just for the laughs there

Everyone was posting pictures of giraffes there

 

There’s creativity in juxtaposition

You never know what you will find when you go fishin’

Here are the kittens, here is the weather

What’s gonna happen when you put ‘em both together

 

There’s more action than a 3 ring circus

You can watch a video of Miley’s twerk ass

Look into space, see galaxies forming

Or watch a time lapse graphic map of global warming

 

Pictures can be small or maybe mid-size

But there’s lots of stuff there that’s not meant for kids’ eyes

If you’re a parent, this might trouble you

 

You can say almost anything that you think there

Even more than that, you can just post a link there

It may be from Huffpo, Google+ or Reddit

It doesn’t really matter who originally said it

 

Some are serious and some are drunk there

It can take a lot of time to sort through the junk there

But it is your page, you are the host there

In the end it all depends on what your friends post there

 

Some just want to chat with friends and family

Some repost everything, very spammily

Some want to fight about news and politics

Just like in reality there’s lots of people in the mix

 

Please like my fan page, I need more fans, will

You please help me out a bit in MafiaWars and Farmville

Think of the hours, that we spend on it

Candy crush candy is enough to make you vomit

 

People post photographs of their vacation

Here is our hotel room and a railway station

Beaches and palm trees, sun slowly slipping

Are they on vacation or are they just ego tripping?

 

There is an infinite amount of stuff, so

There is no way I can ever say enough, oh

Share if you’re happy with my selection

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