Today another old friend
\npassed further on
\nto a place
\nI don\u2019t know
\ndepths
\nI can\u2019t fathom<\/p>\n
despair over politics
\nlashing out in anger over
\nvillains not real
\nslights he imagines
\ntyping out his anger
\nregurgitating
\nnonsensical rumors
\nsharing humorless memes<\/p>\n
making mean comments
\nabout others
\nmostly those different
\nfrom himself<\/p>\n
at least in perception<\/p>\n
too many things are
\ntaken personally
\nshared in anger
\nwithout direction
\nor basis in common
\nsense or decency<\/p>\n
where he has gone is so far
\nremoved from where
\nhe has been, where
\nhe intended to go
\nlong ago<\/p>\n
I cannot share his
\nfascination with
\nconspiracy theories
\ndislike
\ndistrust
\ndisgust
\nwith so much
\nso any others<\/p>\n
asking him
\nwhere
\nhe is going
\nand why
\ntrying to bring
\nhim back to where
\nhe once was
\nonly drives him
\ndeeper into<\/p>\n
that place
\nthose places<\/p>\n
I am not a lifeguard
\nI cannot
\nsave him,
\ndo not
\nunderstand<\/p>\n
fearing only that
\nlike in our days in school
\nthe crowd he is
\ntyping with is
\nleading him to a bad place<\/p>\n
knowing some of
\nthe others in the crowd
\nI fear that
\nit is only a
\nmatter of time
\nuntil I succumb to the
\nFacebook zombie
\nten-point font apocalypse<\/p>\n
– Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n
\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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