Lick your phone

A media poem

Smell your phone —
     search for the musk of 
     ceramic capacitors
     and plastic perfume.

Feel your phone,
     rub it on your naked flesh —
     build up the binary lather.

Lick your phone,
     slowly, 
     purposefully,
     as if to catch melting ice cream 
          on a hot summer's day,
               about to d
                                 r
                                   i
                                    p
                                    away.

Complete the sensory totality —
     bite through the glass flesh and 
     consume the contents of 
          fiberglass fragments
     as flavorless flakes explode,
     ripping ridges down 
          your throat.

A bleeding grin reveals 
     a twisted ecstacy,
as you ready yourself,
     for the next bite.

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Discussion

I think it’s very interesting that digital, being binary in nature, primarily involves two senses. I tried to focus on the other ones and this poem took a very repulsive turn. I didn’t seek to make it repulsive on purpose, but this is the direction it took and I didn’t fight it.

*I made an edit on the line “consume the contents” as I realized after publishing (of course) I was missing an opportunity to use this phrase which has permeated our social media vocabulary.