Ephemeral online moment...

Yours truly plagiarizes himself with zeal

courtesy mental cogs and rusty wheel,

thus no literary crime committed to steel

I broadcast material shown thru rickety

black and white Roman Times newsreel

forthwith shoddy wordplay exempts me

against copyright infringement meaning

only I own privilege to take self to heel,

nevertheless yours truly hoops longshot

to score brownie points a higher power,

I will not cajole, bribe nor appeal...

while sitting on haunches horsing around

contemplating how to clearly expound

idea that the here and now does not exist

cuz no sooner then present moment

experienced than bitta bing bitta bang...

little block of time immediately gone,

hence quite profound...

Whereby present, i.e.

2:24 PM March 4th, 2021

instantaneously becomes past.

Linkedin thru tenuous
webbed world wide
electronic thread defied

no matter flurry of emails/
messages exchanged flattery applied

courtesy transient online

tête à tête downside

cyber venue offers convenient exit

personal aversion, I chide

brevity figurative thorn in side

futile effort Androcles tried

I haint lion, familiarization denied

fledgling cyber acquaintanceships

dead on the vine, yours truly sighed

potential friendship never fortified,

cuz immediate value judgement cast,

instantaneously prejudiced aversion

perhaps hidden agenda implied

maybe intimated illusions of grandeur

netiquette nuances overstepped, I chide

yours truly vouchsafe
absolute zero great expectation

love smitten wounds pride,

the Italian girl in Algiers

inchoate mystique forever unknown
nonetheless fantasize bartered bride

figment of overactive imagination

hence grist for poetry mill

grateful fleeting rapport tried

to take flight before sputtering

doomed to dustbin of history (mine)

filed within memory as template guide
against future unnecessary disappointment

best stick to your guns abide

against infatuation lest
conjured lass doth override

focus on reality no matter who espied

Facebook post, tis foolhardy
to allow, enable, and provide leeway,
hence aimless thoughts elide

dear boy, ya never learned always denied

rapture becoming ensnared
noose sense and sensibility stride

ding blindly, dumbly, foolishly...,

into own perilous entrapment, verstehen?