Permanent exile
The more unusual someone isfor talent and endowment,
the more carefully that orchid should be taken care of
and protected, like a vulnerable poet,
obvious geniuses of music like Chopin and Mozart,
who are usually more vulnerable the more talented they are;
but our age and world were not for geniuses of rarity
but for vulgarity, rough capitalism of inhumanity,
the rule of masses by a cold and hard control society
admitting no exceptions and excluding individuality
that keeps insisting on supreme integrity and independence.
Thus was I locked out of Facebook
evidently now with permanence
since I refuse to upload my ID,
protesting that a social network has no legal right to it,
especially since I live in a very different country
from the Facebook land of digital and personal control.
You cannot argue with computers, as they cannot think,
my argument has all the way been logical and rational,
while Facebook has provided nothing for an argument
except impersonal and automatic robot formulas,
directing you to a Help center proving only fake.
Is that how Facebook works:
allowing you to build up an extensive page
with thousands of your poems, friends and pictures
to just lock it up and hijack it from you
while all you wanted was to dedicate yourself creatively to beauty?
I accept my banishment from such a system
safeguarding my freedom and integrity,
protecting it from the absurdity of any greed control society,
my hidden anonymity and unidentified obscurity
providing my sole chance for personal survival and prevailing liberty.
Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2017-04-02 at 10:33
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