Whatever…

If it’s true we grow to look like our pets
what possesses someone to buy a Sphinx?

What do Gay people look like
and can straight people bend?

What if they’re right?

Whatever we think we are doing with
social media – is it true?

© Andrew Wilson, 2024

Tonight, over at dVerse Poets Pub, whimsygizmo in Quadrille 212 asks us to contemplate What the What?
(A Quadrille is a poem written in exactly 44 words…)

19 thoughts on “Whatever…

  • November 12, 2024 at 3:07 am
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    Oh my Andrew. Good question! What we think we are doing with social media and what is actually being done are very disparate things.

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    • November 12, 2024 at 4:15 am
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      Gay people are beautiful and many straight folk find it impossible to bend.

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      • November 12, 2024 at 6:41 am
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        Too true, Helen…

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  • November 12, 2024 at 3:15 am
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    I especially like that last line, as it’s the beginning of a mantra I once learned:
    THINK before you speak: Is it True? Helpful? Inspiring? Necessary? Kind?

    I think if we applied this to social media as well, we’d all be a whole lot better off.

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    • November 12, 2024 at 6:42 am
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      Indeed, De – thanks for the prompt…

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  • November 12, 2024 at 7:10 pm
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    Oh, I love this, Andrew! Great questions.

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    • November 12, 2024 at 11:57 pm
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      Thanks, Punam, ever since encountering the Book Of Questions I have been collecting my own…

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  • November 12, 2024 at 7:55 pm
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    Truth (like in truth social)… if I remember correctly Pravda means truth… if you need to spell it out it isn’t

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    • November 12, 2024 at 11:55 pm
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      I didn’t know that was what Pravda means – thanks Björn…

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    • November 14, 2024 at 4:06 pm
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      I have started collecting such questions, Merril…

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  • November 14, 2024 at 5:31 pm
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    A clever poem, Andrew. Well done.

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    • November 16, 2024 at 4:10 pm
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      Thanks, Robbie – I have started compiling a list of oblique questions…

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  • November 15, 2024 at 3:50 pm
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    Questions of all shapes and sizes, especially the latter, and does it matter of whom we seek the answers? Whatever! 🙂

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    • November 15, 2024 at 5:05 pm
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      Thanks, Dora, asking the questions is often more significant than getting the answers…

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  • November 16, 2024 at 1:49 am
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    Love your touches of humor in this, Andrew!

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    • November 16, 2024 at 3:23 am
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      Thanks – just to show I am not all doom and gloom Sara…

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  • November 18, 2024 at 12:58 am
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    Social media and real life are two different things. Whatever life brings us, we can only hope that we deal with others with patience and kindness. Have a good week!

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    • November 18, 2024 at 8:24 am
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      Thanks, Grace, you too…

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