The Death of Density
Clickity, click, click
On the simple myth
Clickbait, clickbait
Why wait?
It’s a click or no?
A yes or a know?
Is that so?
What’s the difference really?
Spell check, spell check
Tell me that.
What to
Clickity, click, click?
We don’t want density
But simplicity.
I can click a life.
I just might
Download a woman here,
A man there
A click for a Clit
Or a click for Dick?
What’s the difference really?
One’s inside out, tucked in
Nicely done.
The other hanging out
While keeping it all in
Not a person really but a myth
An artifact that we
Clickity, click, click
To stop the pain.
If I can’t love you,
I will click yet another.
If we don’t agree
Simply delete.
Yes or no
It’s so?
We can find it all in a
Clickity, click, click
Except a smell,
A taste,
A touch,
Or a feel,
Or a feeling.
No, I want to be free
From destiny
Or is it density?
Spell check, spell check,
Which to clickity, click, click?
Malware, was that you?
What’s the difference really?
Earl Yarington (LMSW) is a social worker and school bus driver. He taught literature and writing for nearly 20 years and spent 3 years working in forensic social work internships with offending populations, including work at Delaware Correctional facilities and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He has a PhD in literature and criticism (feminism/women writers) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University, and an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Arts from Arizona State University, where he studied the impact of visual image and girlhood in media/social media. He also has an MA and BS in English from SUNY College at Brockport. The opinions and analyses that Earl writes are his own and are not necessarily the positions or views of his employers, the agencies he supports, or that of his colleagues. Reach out with comments or questions.