Love in the Age of Social Media
“Show me your cards, the ones up your sleeve too, not just the jokers.”
She looks at me with her wide eyes, clear, open, beautiful.
“My soul for a follow, my salvation for a like, my heart for my face on screens screaming my name. Will you still have me?”
“The devil I will.”
She guts me with a sharp, hard smile. “The devil had me at the age of two, tik-tok, tik-tok, and now I only see myself in your desire.”
“And when I’m dead?”
“You’ll be my partner in solitaire,” and turning adds, “just hit the subscribe button.”
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Dreams from a Pilgrimage 
This is why I am not on social media! I really had concerns about starting a blog for these reasons. Everything is vanity and nothing new is under the sun. But how much more narcissistic and selfish we as a society are becoming. Love of self is prevailing and love for Christ is being unsubscribed and censored for hate speech. Love you and your writings, Dora. Thank you for sharing this!!!!!
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Sinister and utterly plausible
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Very clever, although like with all social media and the human condition, I can’t help but find it a little despairing!
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Wow very good; love how you incorporate in poem so many vairous social media. Love for those who are young with social media can’t be easy in these times!
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There is devil in social media 😅
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Intriguing
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Ah, the horror side of social media.
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Tragic.
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*unplugs fast*
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Dear Dora,
“Just hit the subscribe button…” Love it.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Ominous line to be someone’s partner in solitaire.
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Oh! I enjoyed the descriptions. 🙂
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This sounds like a pretty sinister interchange.
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Well done. Social media distorts real life for sure.
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Hi, this is dark Dora, but riveting – hope you are doing OK 🙂
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Dora, we live in a “brave new world” don’t we 😦
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Fun metaphors!
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sign of the times. where in the world is it going to? 🙂
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Spot on! So unfortunate!
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Very interesting. Enjoyed reading!
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