In This Voracious Cyberspace. We Have Become Nothing At All. Poem by RIC BASTASA

while facebooking
we forget
eating breakfast

and you stop all these
and say come we must
eat now

i follow you at the
breakfast table prepared
by a domestic
help

i keep this to myself
that while doing facebooking
i forget love
i forget you
i forget even myself

i forget the world
i forget my work

it is how damaging it is.
and we do not even realize it

i forget about exercise
i forget about my dogs
i forget about my garden

it is how damaging it is.
how we still keep on knowing
about the miseries of other people.
how we have diminished our
value for ourselves

in this voracious cyberspace.
we have become nothing at all.

a monster in space without a face
has devoured all our souls.