You make me get off my phone.
Protesting my non-presence, driving
Sides of your defibrillator face (vrrrrr) into my hands—
A call back from the cold depths
Of eye-glazing glows, button-press trances,
Focus-fraging dings.
You don’t see value in this technology.
You don’t have to say it:
Rubbing your head against
the corner of every screen and pad
Like it’s best use is scratching,
And walking across—
flexed glass, mashed buttons.
I have no counter-argument.
You spent your days outside—
long vision, warm skin.
You never directly shame me,
But never join in:
my red-eyes itching,
brain blue-light dazed.
Toe-pads
pressing into my shirt, my belly goes soft.
I can’t type this and rest with you.
So I'll rest with you.
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