Smart slick sick phones

deliver explosive images and quavered words 

with personal ads to

war fatigued classes -

though not so fatigued as the dead.

 

And the pictures speak personally

to some ill insane

with ideas of reference

and persecution. 

Text - messaging

"Go, go, get them for me'

and the vulnerable ill

Go for the kill.

 

In the scrambled highways, byways, wire ways 

of mixed up messages

where silence is full of noise,

Peace eludes the disturbed soul

and societies jumbled signals

of compassion and violence confound.

 

See how sorrow brings the mystic to the hills

and the poets to their knees.