Online Dating

A colleague (NY) called me up about          
The prognosis for online dating            
Ushering in a new era            
“I don’t know how they’re doing it now”            
My response was “I don’t think they are”            
For one, life is more constrained than it’s ever been            
For the general working class,              
So being in survival mode            
Leaves little room for anything else-            
You stop being quite so optional after your 20’s            
A few of the profiles are practically            
Begging for correspondence on any level,            
Several have been straight up abandoned            
Yet some lurk in solitude            
Lolling phantom pain            
Intellectual banter; haunted            
Over some missing limb            
That isn’t there;            
That they/we/same sex loving women            
 Just don’t do anymore;            
Even my other friend (West Coast) shared these sentiments            
On the phone 2 nights ago:            
“It’s the same shit, everywhere”            
Well yea babe-can’t make this world            
be what we want it to be    
Can't make women  
be who we want them to be.            
     
(Not my graphic but...)