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Pre-Web Years: Social Media
My childhood social media
could be measured in inches
all colored, rectangular magazines
some as big as 10 1/2" x 14"
and as small as 5 ½” x 7 ½”
delivered every month
by hardy, blue uniformed postal carriers
One favorite,
“Sunset” was in our home a staple
a pretty thick, glossy depiction
of how the best American westerners live
perhaps in a replica,
upscale Hopi Pueblo style compound
appropriately located in the Painted Desert
cacti, tumbleweeds. Lizards on the ground
kaleidoscopic greens, reds, beige, brown
with, of course, stoneware and flatware to match
Too many periodicals to describe today
after all, as a kid, I’d only sit still for one-a-day
and now, as in my tender years
I just must go out and play
could be measured in inches
all colored, rectangular magazines
some as big as 10 1/2" x 14"
and as small as 5 ½” x 7 ½”
delivered every month
by hardy, blue uniformed postal carriers
One favorite,
“Sunset” was in our home a staple
a pretty thick, glossy depiction
of how the best American westerners live
perhaps in a replica,
upscale Hopi Pueblo style compound
appropriately located in the Painted Desert
cacti, tumbleweeds. Lizards on the ground
kaleidoscopic greens, reds, beige, brown
with, of course, stoneware and flatware to match
Too many periodicals to describe today
after all, as a kid, I’d only sit still for one-a-day
and now, as in my tender years
I just must go out and play
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Yesterday 9:35am
So grateful I grew up playing outside
without computers...
It's so wild...
From Myspace to here...
I think...
People let the tech take them
in a bad direction...
But now...
The tech is such, that we have
access to machines, which, in
connection with the writing...
Can...
Proliferate the artistic vision
in a powerful way, previously
unimagined...
I mean...
Now artists can create their own
myspace networks...
Maybe not easy but...
More possible than ever before...
Why I think this is important...
To reverse the trend...
If we leave society to the big
corporations...
Society will only get worse...
without computers...
It's so wild...
From Myspace to here...
I think...
People let the tech take them
in a bad direction...
But now...
The tech is such, that we have
access to machines, which, in
connection with the writing...
Can...
Proliferate the artistic vision
in a powerful way, previously
unimagined...
I mean...
Now artists can create their own
myspace networks...
Maybe not easy but...
More possible than ever before...
Why I think this is important...
To reverse the trend...
If we leave society to the big
corporations...
Society will only get worse...
Today 3:45am
