How do I chat thee? Let me count the ways.
November 14th | 2009 By
Tags: AOL, Chat, Emotion, Engagement, Facebook, Google, Google Wave, poetry, SMS, Social Media, twitter
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How do I chat thee?
Let me count the ways:
I can chat thee old school
face to face and toe to toe
our meat mouths moving
air vibes chafing the drums in our ears.
I can chat thee through chat boards
Do they still have chat boards?
Do they still know if you’re a dog?
Do the pheromones still hang as sweet and loud?
I can chat thee on AOL
the running man messenger
claims my home page as his own
and where did that tool bar come from?
I can chat thee on Twitter
but does everyone see our repartee?
Does our use of hash tags
mean it’s for their benefit?
I can chat thee on Facebook
in so many ways
wall to wall or that box in the corner
or we both can make comments on something we Like.
I can chat thee on Google
by email, by Wave, by another box in the corner.
Don’t mind that they’re watching
every thing that we say, every thing that we might do.
I can chat thee on Mobile
with Facebook and Twitter and old AOL
with SMS we can text our innermost thoughts
to each others mobile phone, with pictures.
How did I chat thee?
On what channel did we parse
our arrows of connection?
And did we leave a trace?