Modern Communications

If all the mobile phones in the world
were arranged in the form of a tower,
and the words once spoken through them
turned into cement, the way the words
once cemented people to each other,
to bind the phones all together
we really would have an all new,
and digital, Tower of Babel.

Passivity Revised For Modern Consumption

Before the days of a television in every home
films were 'Life with the boring bits removed',
the edited highlights of a made up life write large
for the screen to keep the masses entertained.
How odd then that as we fast forward to the future
via the internet, what we get presented with is still life,
but with all the grit removed from the issues presented,
the more to help us to accept our singular passivity.