Modern Life

O Modern life seems to nourish the trivial And inflate the spectacular! Celebrities Assume a warped normality; as they seem to Live out a thousand dreams and desires for us. We witness the superficial saturation Of our screens via private lives becoming Increasingly public in titillating Talk shows and ridiculous ' Reality' T.V programmes. Tragedies and horrors are now Regurgitated and sanitised in rampant Twenty four hour news programmes and documentaries. The bleakest human face is rendered meaningless. It has become a mere freely floating image Competing for attention; amidst myriad distractions: information collides with advertising. With the exponential rise of social media, There is now the forced extroversion of our interior lives. No halo of protection Surrounds us.Commodity signs abound. We are Drawn to the faux beauty of plastic surgery. The logo symbolises status in a shrinking world. Yet, the once revered, divine Logos is now defunct.