Beyond Boredom

What should we do
when the displacement activities
that usually quietly consume us
no longer contain our attention span?

This is not just a matter of the online life,
where when entertainment ceases to detain us
we turn towards the temptations of pornography
which further desensitise a half desensitised people.

There sex and violence of different varieties,
are well labelled and sub-divided into categories
for callow consumers to choose from thinking
'This is what I want' whilst seeking to avoid
accepting self knowledge through vice.

This is a matter of real life,
life of the sort where we should accept
that it is more constructive to be as still
as the wall we stare at than do anything else.