Saturday, September 14, 2024

AN ONLINE CONFERENCE

 I’m there and I’m not there

Because I’m here

Sitting in my chair

Looking at people seen

Like talking postage stamps

On my computer screen.

Yattering and chattering

Debating and berating,

Oozing charm and derision,

Raising my suspicions.

Whilst their words go in one ear

Mistrust whispers in the other.

Despite slick presentations

And passionate orations,

Mistrust just won’t go away.

I’m too cynical and aged,

For real speakers on real stages,

So, I’ll sit here at home

Scratch my head, fart and groan.

While the postage stamp people

Burble, babble on and on

And endlessly intone’

Turning my remaining brain cells

Into arid echoing bone.

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