INSTANT MESS

Instant message

Instantly ignored.

Frantic text from out of range

As you walk out of your life.

Screen chock with emails

Seething spam and clickbait.

Beep boop!

Update alert

Urgently touts emptiness

Or “positivitay”

Missed mixed metaphors

Muted twitterings

Blue light filtered

Misinformation

Cons and connects

Unconscious legions

To not giving a damn

Status from the small hours

(Just in case

Keeping it to yourself

Risks it’s hashtag unreal)

Informs the snoozed and snoozing

That this dazzlefest

Under the covers

Is keeping you from sleep.