What has become of the careful posted word?
Once blood drove ink and often paused for thought.
Now keys are grazed and to the Web referred -
e-mail will do if all you want is blurt.
What now the role of banter face-to face?
How much are eyes and ears and touch required?
At one remove, print words leave their clear trace,
Evidence engraved, unvocally mired.
On-page words in a sentence invented
penetrate deeper than those wagged by chin.
Something there clings to a message cemented,
the uttered word more of a bulletin.
Best of all, poems are rarely outdone,
tap dancing on screens, on paper and tongue.
bw
27.3.19
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