every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates
the internet
Google; Facebook; Skype; gazillions of websites, some of them knowledgeable, most of them not, just like us; more information to look up than I could in a lifetime; more junk than I want to hear, see, read in forever; it's like a busride that you almost can't get off (except you can if you just will); but when you want to learn something, someone has almost surely provided it and all you need to do is find it; when you want to read poems by so-and-so, you can almost always find them; if you want to buy a book or a screwdriver or a painting or a Russian bride, they're all there; if you need to look up a word, it has a dozen or more dictionaries; if you're looking for communications from a friend, there's email and maybe fifty other ways to read or hear what they sent; it's chaotic; it's organized; it's fun; it's terrifying; it's commercial; it's seductive; it's paintings and photographs and movies and videos and symphonies and rock'n'roll and mimes and how-tos and kittens and wild animals or people acting like them; it's so goddam human!
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