thou cyber sand (Twitter Poem #4)
Posted: January 18, 2011 | Author: Fruzsina Eördögh | Filed under: Health, Internet, Media, Techology, Women | Tags: celebrity, Facebook, furies, gender inequality, gender roles, greek mythology, greek prostitutes, history of high heels, internet addiction, Online Communities, Poetry, roman mythology, social media, social media etiquette, Twitter |1 Comment »The Funny Thing about Twitter:
the other day ”roman sandals” appeared
twice on my twitter
profile page
Some time later, romansandals starts following me
Romans: stealer of gods but not the shoe soles of whores
I am wary-
in bare cyber space, more than one user
leads to no safe place
so I leave no indent in the dirt, no greek tweet
and romansandals offers no akolouthi,
no use of language, or other “come follow me”
a user with more than
a thousand to read
a thousand to mark
a thousand for triumph, esteem
a thousand for fanning the line
romansandals leads me to a blog that exists
and no viral ambush awaits
in the given net space, but
another affront:
shoes and paparazzi, the Furies of celebrity
and the cheapness of the page, the turning
of the same old tricks
slur the said citizen in me
what roman sandals are these?
no Romans walked in sandals like these!
where is the sure-footed confidence? the feeling of weight placed,
equal on each side
the sense of purpose and physical pride-
give and take, to communicate?
Instead, I am offered the burden of never-ending youth
and the pain of a crooked spine
I shunned the offer,
and as the oracles in the ether said,
it came to pass
romansandals no longer acknowledges me
#FF #FTW
Only in social media can we BOTH Follow and Lead.