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Sonnets From Other Lives: Party of 6

party of 6 at table 22--
lunching, texting, talking, & kvetching:
-- anyone besides me feel like you
have some evil app that is attaching
itself to your brain & somehow making it
hyper vigilant? --everything needs
immediate attention! —this is how we live
our lives in this emerging century.
--raise your hand if you are taking xanax.
it gets a laugh tho no one’s hand goes up
-- we are all living lives of quiet panic.
as the conversation ebbs & flows
not once do they look up from their phones