AMPLIFY
If you pause
for a bit
you’re now behind,
as sprinters
lap joggers
a thousand times
The importance of speed
is savagely rabid,
where repeated codes
let us express
less elaborate
Long form is dying
in a riot of replies,
as birds pursue buzz
for mentions
and allies
The past had cycles
sprawled in pages,
not rumor infernos
that char
with its blazes
Opinion was poured
from the filter of a few,
then keys became turnstiles
for the novice
to blitz through
The burden of truth
is obscured on flat screens,
where context is bound
by what it all means
We are directors
in a disordered scene,
spinning sagas
in wild theaters unseen
Fresh techniques
unleash crumbs
for consumption,
in binges of data
with no sustainable function
Louder is the gospel
we amplify at will,
with transmissions of merit
in the spheres that may fill