In-Box

Mail and magazines,
marked "URGENT,"
trying to impress.

Fat chance.

Gatecrashers,
the lot of them
uninvited, unexamined.

Coasters for coffee.

The stack grows, a
ponderous beanstalk, down which
a fearsome giant descends.

Like your texts.

Shrill alerts, a
Cacophony in Blue,
rock the foundation.

The Sound of Muzak.

Pocket vibrates.
Smartphone against thigh.
A seismograph of guilt,

registering on the Richter Scale.

Trounced by notice alone,
text and context
uninvited, unexamined.

Plan spoiled by unlimited data.