Friday, July 15, 2016

"Love" in the Time of High-Technology

Disclaimer:

This is a paglalaba-sa-umaga-inspired poem. The hyonotic whirlpools in the washing machine and the idyllic morning tranquility brought my sleepy mind to its senses and VOILA!

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There we go again
Handing out "I love you"s
Like candies 
On a Halloween night

In this day and age
Where arduous courting is lost
And merely expedited
With apps and GPS

Has love been brewed enough? 
Like the best whisky in oak casks
Enough to drown and inebriate us
In its velvety addicting goodness

Or has it been driven by mere
Impulse? Loneliness? 
Erikson's loud calls for 
Fucking intimacy?

And answered with
A mutual swipe to the right
Acute need for companionship.

Proximity.

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