BEING IN TOUCH

We received an e-mail from a friend in Australia. One of her students was having a serious problem with cyber-bullying. Suddenly it seems the obvious solution to this; pushing the off button, going off line, not opening e-mail has become impossible. The weapon has become a necessity for the victim's generation..

About Being In Touch

Reading the work of others so familiar

with foreign places aware

of the latest fads films music celebrities real

or self-assumed should I

feel abashed by my inexperience which seems

to be almost ignorance

that not only have I not seen but have no desire

to see Venice (not that I want to die

sooner of course) but should I retire to my thicket

of bushes and erratic boulders

where my actual vista is as restricted as my

experience for how can I be

in touch with society humanity my national

family in touch with what

they call reality to share the feeling of all

those people out there who

surely have souls too if I had never seen

the twin towers before

they died on TV and if instead of new towers

I'd recommend a simple

circular park with a central fountain for

the new bull's eye (although I

hope I will not have to visit New York City again

before I die) then they'd

all cry he doesn't understand the cost of real-estate

but I'm not retiring for

I'm beginning to find not doing things not facing

facebook uneatable blackberries or

a telephone smarter than I am that not doing

many things is rewarding

as editing what they call reality is a happening

fewer and fewer enjoy may  

Invention Necessities mother forgive me.