Humankind from Humankindweed by Fowl

Humankind cannot bear too much entertainment All time spent watching Netflix is unredeemable Sooner or later everything palls And we must face the moment Stare down our predicament Or dig a deeper hole in which to stew Humankind cannot bear too much reading
In time the eyes collapse into the back of the head And every word read becomes solitary Devoid of context, dead, buttocks, brains and body numb And meaning dissolves into meaninglessness Humankind cannot bear too much solitary drinking When spirits are low spirits make them lower still And the more we drink the more we spill Over into depression and despair till we lose All sense of who or where or what or why or when And grovel through the hours Humankind cannot bear too many snacks Pringles, Twixes, biscuits, breadsticks, Gummi bears. The taste Buds have no sense of what’s coming next And everything resolves to sugar and salt and sluggishness And torpor and feeling slightly sick Humankind cannot bear too much Skype or Zoom Or Hangouts, Facetime, Whatsapp or whatever Flat faces ,robot voices, chair bound Deskbound, housebound hanging round with nothing much to say Except what’s all been said before much better with A touch or hug or look when passing on the stairs.

• Experimental
• experimental songwriting
• songwriter
• United Kingdom