The School Playground For Adults

I have been slow to appreciate and rank
the plethora of media outlets, many of which
are no more than random names to me,
Facebook, X, Bluesky, Instagram, Tik-Tok,
whatsapp, and al the rest in terms of their speed
at sharing voluminous levels of communications,
where clarity and inclusive humour of the message
are in the mind of the receiver. For whom being there
often reminds them of times in the school playground.

But I think I have got it now,
the measure of how fast we think
is how fast we can be seen to write. 

But when that measure includes how crude
and rude to each other we can be, what that amounts to
is how we use public media to disown the parts of us
we want to disown before people who know us in person.

I take the slower route, and know fewer people,
with whom I try to represent myself in the mass media
who I would want to be, if we were to meet in person.