Hi, I’m Phil, convenience junkie
‘Easy does it’… and I’m its flunky
No longer am I boss of my decide
I fell in lust with lazy
Let apathy enslave me
Convenience became my proxy bride
But, now, convenient captive
I’m helpless, maladaptive
My liberator caged my want to try
I sold my love for betrayed hopes
I’m left cohabbing with a hoax
Convenience is our inconvenient lie
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Yes, I’m married to convenience
Electronic expedience
Gadgets wed to groom a slacker me
Apps that woo me shirking
My brain, hardwired, working
For 140 ciphers, mindlessly
Social media, ingeniously
Mainlines intravenously
Exhibitionists, streaming human waste
Courting attention deficits
Photo pimping fetishes
Love-starved clickbait, ego chased
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Broadband mercenaries
Gaslight diversionaries
Annulling righteous love, trolling likes
Trumping up bogus needs
With lust-intoxicating speeds
Romancing us to predatory sites
Where altruist’s achievements
Divorced by faux convenience
Leave noble innovations expendable
And, premature birthings
Of exaggerated worth things
Breed what we don’t need, indispensable
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Convenience once, was surely earned
From problem solving fathers learned,
A boy grew up a man thru mimicry
Today, convenience plays my dad
So, absent hands-on father had
I’m raised by algorithmic gimmickry
And, necessity…mom of inventions
Babies best, my least intentions
With conveniences, I mustn’t live without
Now, prisoner of my own devices
Hostage to convenience crisis
I’m LinkedIn, Stockholmed, … souled out
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Convenience hypes I’m better off
Rewired needy…programmed soft
Doodads that undo daring doing
I dwell @ parasite.com
Corrupted disc on CD-ROM
Conveniently indifferent to pursuing
“I swear convenience-bride, betrothed
I won’t ‘I do’, when I can loaf
You can always count on me, to malinger
So, unless, my dear, I dial in sick
Or, on PC, just point and click
You have my word, I will not lift a finger”
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With convenience, my laissez lover
Espousing me, dependent other
Marriage lasts as long as I’ve submitted
While inconvenience matesresistance
Tough-loved…we’ll go the distance
Hitched to everlasting’s pledge: committed
And, as convenience vows inaction
Inconvenience weds proaction
Testifying hope for (our) human race
Where convenience makes for different
Inconvenience makes a difference
Promising our world, a better place
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Convenience is our welfare state
Social media its opiate
Overdosing Intel, doping mind
Hooked on instant gratify
Binging, cannot satisfy
I’m brain dead off the grid, cyber blind
Too much data, too convenient
Fact free, fat filled, fool’s ingredients
My wisdom starved diet: bloated blogs
Can’t get enough, more of less
Biased, blathered, birthed excess
I’m bastard child of TV demagogues
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There’s no convenience, too malfeasant
For this narcissistic deviant
Born to privileged power’s pedigree
Over indulged, entitled man
Squandering life because I can
I’m grifting you… infantilizing me
Waiting for my ship to come
Cause Amazon will float me one
I sit my butt…and, tap my Jeff cartel
No need for being stricter
To the spoiled belongs the victor
Just-rewards for pampered ne’er do well
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Inconvenience is inconvenient
For the millennial disobedient
Seduced by viral voyeur vanity
In bed with promiscuous techno
Willpower sleeps with ‘heck no’
Hard drive parked at hookups, hassle free
Convenience cheats my will for won’t
And, each “I do”, I swap for don’t
Forsakes my ex-beloved: excellence
As convenience is… permissive does
Betraying every promised was
Redacting real, downloading decadence
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Love me Tinder… scratch my itch
Fidelity…you’re such a bitch
Just get me off, with no strings attached
Convenient consummation
Without love’s complication
Imitating intimates, dot.com matched
Convenience is but serial dater,
One night, swipe left.… see you later
Impersonating love, convenience scored
Each upgrade, new honeymoon
Enjoy the bliss before the swoon
Goodbye, used up goods, you’re out my door
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Why do… if convenient not?
Let my moral fiber rot
I’m losing face to selfie sabotage
And, ask me not directions please
Just tell me where to go, Siri
My mistress of enabling entourage
Your GPS will guide me home
To where I live, address unknown
My unused recall will not get me there
But, who need remember what?
Convenience navigates me up
I’ve forgotten any how and everywhere
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Gentlemen stop your (search) engines
Where we’re racing no one wins
Spark unplugged, we’ve lost self-ignition
Aborted bright, prolific thinking
Enlightenment… darkened, shrinking
Brain trusts ceding power of transmission
Now in cerebral apocalypse
With mental acuity in eclipse
Our insights dimmed… IQ’s in remission
Convenience-seeded mental lapse
Spawns absentminded, memory gaps
With no more storage left for our cognition
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Convenience-married: easy-best
Divorcing grit for effortless
Doing least, is being most, today
No more wish to think, nor reason
Just implant, convenience-pleasin
Vacating souls for programmed DNA
Convenience clones us to our brink
Yielding flesh and blood extinct
We’ve bred bionic lives, transcending we
Humanoids, convenient race
Cyborg culled, till we’re displaced
We’ve no life left, but inhumanity
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Is this (long) poem soinconvenient
It tests your marriage to convenience?
Too many words, for introspective thought?
Today, fast-quick is how we shoot
No queries deep…we just reboot
Needn’t question truth when falsehoods bought
We boob-tube, schemed Kardashians
You-tube beamed star actions
Projecting (our) profane family schlock
Bare our all, when stalked we love it
Voyeurs hooked, when shocked, we covet
Shaming selves like sham celebs we mock
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Convenience screws (our) laidback scruples
Penetrating lobbied loopholes
Prostitution governs Wash, D.C.
Convenient fibs, divorcing facts
Inconvenient truth, recast
Opinion ties-its-not, wantonly
Convenience marries right to lie
Deceive, deny, then alibi
When all fails… distract, attack the source
BS our way, till we’re the victim
Tag a scapegoat, blame the system
If that won’t work, lawyer up, of course
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Convenience oversimplifies
Downloading us to stereotypes
Spamming human beings’ complexity
My lazy first impressions
Project my imperfections
Flaws I see in you… I’m scared are me
Convenient fostered prejudice
Presumes you as the worst of us
Scorning you, removes my need to know you
Judging you, I make you wrong
Now I’m right… you don’t belong
Bigot “yes-ing” hate, so I can “no” you
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Is convenience, malicious malware?
Are, we its scripted software?
Duped avatars of fated memory chips?
Beings slaved by our machines
Captive spouse to master screens
In co-depending, abused relationships
Hashtagged… you are so it
Instaglamed … we sure can’t quit
Match-dot, play-pals… digitally divined
BFF my auto-mate
Facebooked chums we fabricate
Transparent likers, of the posing kind
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“OMG! Please don’t delete
Please don’t ghost me obsolete
If I do not exist… I can’t fit in”
I won’t survive rejected
So photoshopped corrected
My inflated profile takes us for a spin
I show you… not showing you
I know you… not knowing you
Posted friends… never really friends
We’re contacts…fictionalized
Hyperlinked, dehumanized
Is this how true love as we knew it… ends?
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Convenience-speak, reared to please
Socially spread yak disease
Deadening art of talk, with zombie chatter
While tik-toking insanity
Is vid doc-ing humanity
Giving nameless faces hope they matter
Techno-paraphernalia
Our mass transmission failya
Constantly connects us, never close
No, real live, conversation
Self-absorbed, lost in translation
Leaves us yearning love, we miss the most
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Whatsapp… surf acquaintance?
I trust you’ll be, low maintenance
Can’t let heartfelt friendship interfere
No more meeting face-to-face
I socialize in hyperspace
My closest ‘buds’ are seated in my ear
We are convenient’s flagrant cost
Our deep enduring, loving, lost
Betrayed by aping android instruments
Logmein, remote controls
Encoded bots breaching souls
Domesticating us, their household pets
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Convenience is but sleight of hand
Make believing on demand
Loose with real…slut to phantasy
And, who’s ‘convenienced’, really?
Our peddlers, not consumers, silly
Convenient service? Such a fallacy!
It’s we who truly serve our servers
Confidential, secure preservers
Conveniently monetizing (our) privacy
Our eminenceis their domain
ID’s embedded in their mainframe
Our personal lives…their hijacked piracy
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And, though we bitch our grievance
We still refresh our pledged allegiance
To convenience… that flags us more perverse
Googling… our character away
Clouding conscience another day
Dropboxed in our Silicon universe
So, who eloped with our initiative?
Who annulled our mind’sinquisitive?
Has convenience parted ways with ourresolve?
Once so smart without our phone
No longer computing on our own
We’ve no more reason left for us to solve
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Who’s in charge of our damn bus?
You know… the drones that Uber us
We’re taken for a ride…not just by Lyft
Has ego chauffeured life too far?
Test-driving death’s no-driver car
Has convenience finally steered us off its cliff?
Afraid of robots stealing jobs?
How about what convenience robs?
What happened to our once proud self reliance?
With discipline in atrophy
And, passion morphed passivity
Convenience is our terminal compliance
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Yes, I’m married to convenience
Whose contraptions lie between us
Bless be, our heartless ties, that never bind
I’m falling on my knees to pray
“Dear God… I know not what to say?
I’ve lost your contact info… cannot find”
With convenience, fatal lenience
I’ve now become my inconvenience
Estranging me, till death do us part
My love affair with easy
Proves nothing doescomplete me
Convenience…has virtually hacked my heart!
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