Saturday, April 4, 2020

The Old Farmer Pronounces on Zoom Open Mics

All these Zoom sessions are annoying me.
Couldn’t we just settle for solitude,
while the future appears more and more alarming?
Having alarmist me
in a Zoom session is not recommended.
All these Zoom sessions are annoying me.
People “get together remotely.”
They’re shut-ins, their jobs have ended,
and their future appears more and more alarming
to them. They read their poetry
to the others, which may or may not feel like a companionable
way to interact in a Zoom session, or even
face to face. I wish we could just play Parcheesi
or titillate one another on Zoom in the nude,
while the future appears more and more alarming
to us. I’m the same about open mics,
Zoom or otherwise—I don’t really enjoy them.
Zoom seems too claustrophobic to me,
now that I’ve dedicated myself to ocean farming.