The Art of Conversation

By saltyman65

Pursuit of interaction finds
the touchdown, slip slide, perpetual playback,
imprinted to the cerebral cortex.
A shooting gallery of USB’s sit side by side at a bar.
Hot, streaming, steaming digital injection no flesh and bone connection. 
Brain matter tumbles to the snack bowl below.
The lime still pokes it’s belabored head from a warming beer,
as he looks up wine on line instead.
Nothing is uttered not even a sigh as twitching fingers  tap tap tap tap tap
Scrolling..........
Scrolling..........
down.

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Copyright 2016 saltyman65
Published on Sunday, October 2, 2016.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • TropicalSnowstorm On Friday, April 29, 2016, TropicalSnowstorm (1703)By person wrote:

    I love the imagery of the beer warming right in front of them while they, instead, look up wine online... : ) Excellent piece! Ciao, T/S Scholar

  • A former member wrote: The way you captured the lack of face to face interaction was clever and entertaining. Well done! Scholar

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