Enough with the novels, already. Time to spin some haikus, eh?
I admit it: the internet is eating my mind. And here are some related haikus, straight from the poet, by God.
Spring day darkening:
the locust digital swarm
eats my absent mind.
Read on for the essential lowdown on dopamine addiction.
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Dipping for Dopamine
Delivery vehicles,
Every damn Like
A dopamine fix.
![](http://www.collinpiprell.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/I-am-diminished.jpg)
Proto-cyborg Lament
The battery defunct,
My 5G iPhone is dead.
I am diminished.
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Oxymoron
Mindfully multi-tasking,
Oxymoronic
Protomoronic.
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It’s often said the internet is more addictive than tobacco or alcohol.
“Many people say this.”
– Donald J. Trump
And so it is. But just wait till fully immersive GR arrives on the scene.
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You can read all about that in MOM. And in Genesis 2.0, new editions of which — ebook and print on demand — are now available online.
Special bonus for having read this far:
And…
We focus on nothing at all…words to live by.
Ever truer, in my own experience. Though I want to think I’m fighting it. … Happy holidays, Terry.