slow burning days drag by
as the smouldering fag ends of hours
turn themselves to ash
second-hand jigsaws
sleep smugly on dusty shelves,
uncontrite at their incompleteness,
next to a well-thumbed
Robert Harris and the fortnight
stretches like old laddered tights
evenings drab with scrabble
and the death rattle of yahtzee dice
provide no substitute
for videos of piano-playing cats
instagram selfies, status updates
and Lionel Richie memes
instead this, the buffering
and the suffering and the shutters
which rattle in the wind
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Very good. Yes, I often think that people worry too much about how much time they, or worse still, their kids!, spend doom scrolling. We learn and get enthused and amused by so much new stuff on the internet, much better than jigsaws or old games. . We only get sucked into it because our brilliant big brains (and I am not being phesesius, of however you spell it) are always in need of more input. Thankyou for your endlessly doomscrolling entertainment and thought provoking work. Love from Jan
Thanks, Jan