Clickbait

Copy and paste this status
if you care about cancer;
if you think education matters;
if you like animals.
Don't just share: you have to copy and paste
so that the deliberate errors will be reproduced
and this post can be tracked.

Can I find five friends who will re-post this
in solidarity with mental health?
Only 3% will do so: bet it won't be you!
If you care about me, you will do this,
and so, by extension,
if I don't see your post, you obviously don't care.

Write me a phrase about how we first met,
but don't spoil the game!
When you've done that, you have to copy this
and paste it on your own wall,
otherwise you're not my real friend.

People with mental health conditions,
especially X and Y and Z
are finding life in lockdown harder than ever before.
Let's share this post about ways to help,
because just being there for your friends anyway
is no longer enough, and besides, one size fits all.

No, I will not re-post your error-strewn message,
or be the one who bothers to show that I care
by following an arbitrary set of instructions.
I will not keep this dumb 'game' going
or support the supposition
that isolation always feeds illness;
I have those conditions too,
and like many others, am far calmer at home, in peace.

Do not presume to tell me
what I feel or think, or how much I care,
based on some petty social media trend,
or pseudo-science, or popularity contest.
I will simply not engage.