“Peel Back the Neon”
Spit shine the bitter truth—
no sugar coat, no soft landing.
The real rolls in like thunder
wearing citrus and static.
We bite back with tongues dyed bright.
Laugh lines splitting
through fluorescent doubt.
No algorithm knows how hard we hit
when we hit with nothing to prove.
Peel back the neon skin— under it:
something too loud to fake.
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Author:
crypticbard (Pseudonym) (
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Cryptic this poem to me reflects modern technology and its affect on us. Technology nothing more than what we put into it is us in mechanical form. We decorate it with colors and lights. It brings in what we see as truth, the internet bringing us finger tip access to it. We hit the keys hard and despite the information we doubt what is true and what is not. It operates on algorithms. Each hit on the internet recorded knowing what we have been interested in and giving us new offerings as to what we may want to see but we proceed without any purpose or anything to prove. If we peel away the shell there is a truth too loud to ignore, a search for meaning, ease of life, truth but we find truth too loud to ignore. I'm sure it has many other meanings and that is what make it great. A fave
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