Scream Fire! or Screen Fire?
Fire, fire. toil and trouble
we protect them from "The Burnies"
we teach them of The Heat
we keep our babies, kids and tweens, safe,
away from matches, scalds,
and bath time boiling feet.
But somethings so obvious as digital addicts
something more insidious and feral than heat
Are dished daily diets of babysitting screens,
The SIMs, The WOW and The COD,
this blood lust and carnage as "games"
The Bonfire of TVDVDNETFLIXCABLE
unfettered oceans of cellular connection
a world wide web in Their Pocket;
unregulated untaught uncaring,
Shopping Buy parents? Dross? Gross?
Or Not?
Fire breathing socmed dragons
as we invite burnt out app patterns
Hotter stem cells and crispy tender brains
as continuous partial attention
fractures pathways, fries eyes and
Creates Unpresenced Monsters
with Notre Damned hunches
As we moan about warming Our Planet
when we happily Fry Our Youths Brains
we protect them from "The Burnies"
we teach them of The Heat
we keep our babies, kids and tweens, safe,
away from matches, scalds,
and bath time boiling feet.
But somethings so obvious as digital addicts
something more insidious and feral than heat
Are dished daily diets of babysitting screens,
The SIMs, The WOW and The COD,
this blood lust and carnage as "games"
The Bonfire of TVDVDNETFLIXCABLE
unfettered oceans of cellular connection
a world wide web in Their Pocket;
unregulated untaught uncaring,
Shopping Buy parents? Dross? Gross?
Or Not?
Fire breathing socmed dragons
as we invite burnt out app patterns
Hotter stem cells and crispy tender brains
as continuous partial attention
fractures pathways, fries eyes and
Creates Unpresenced Monsters
with Notre Damned hunches
As we moan about warming Our Planet
when we happily Fry Our Youths Brains