Spammed Sestina

Spammed Sestina

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I am contacting you with something urgent,

you have always been a good friend

I need to inform you of the following:

It is important that we remain connected.

It is important we don’t avoid the subject.

Please switch on your TV and watch the news.

 

Nothing happens in the world that isn’t in the news,

nothing happens in the news that isn’t urgent,

nothing happens until there is an urgent subject

and I would not be contacting you my friend

if it wasn’t for the importance of remaining connected,

if it wasn’t that so many are following.

 

There is perhaps something sinister about following

with such attentiveness the many faces of the news.

Sometimes I wonder if we really need to be connected

to an idea, a chink in history that only now is urgent.

I wonder why I feel the need for a friend

when friendship has become a meaningless subject.

 

Yet I am asking you to stand alongside me on the subject,

I ask you to confess that we have been following

the instructions of a face we both called a friend

and I ask you to smile with me as we state that the news

of this latest update is a shock and that retaction is urgent

and we celebrate the fact that minds have connected.

 

There was a time when people became connected

when we connected them, became subject

when we subjected them, their ideas were never urgent

until we believed them. They followed and kept following,

we told our stories and our stories became news.

Keep dancing and you will always have a friend.

 

I understand the world through faces I call friends,

every day I ensure to remain connected.

There are many sources from which I glean news

in the space above my thoughts I leave ‘no subject’.

There are hundreds of people who are following

my brief statements and their replies are always urgent.

 

 

Hello my dear friend there is no subject no winning numbers

I am keeping you connected and I am following you

I’ve told you the good news and now await your urgent respond.

 

Hannah Silva