silent student
traps herself behind a desk for days
not one word spoken
besides yes-ma’ams
and thank-yous
silent student
ventures home, spills her guts
all over the keyboard
inky fingers twitching stories
hellos, how-have-you-beens
to names on a screen
silent student
trusts her virtual friends
[her online confidants]
with pit-of-your-stomach secrets,
spun-glass truths
but
when the “real” people
have nothing to say,
she won’t waste her time
to reciprocate
–
written s26jun2011.
real people are just hallucinations caused by staring at a screen for too long.
–
idiography 