Baa!

The Good Shepherd

Zuckerberg

Origami like

Folds and pens

The Sucker Herd

Tagging each one

As they baa baa baa

Onto pastures new

The flock

Finding they

have been misled

Twitter

About justice

Lost

Bleating back

To Bo Peepian Days

When they could still

Stand up and be counted

In the time it takes

A lamb to shake its tail

They scroll on

To Selfie style themselves

A better future

100 likes later

Peace is restored

Zuckerberg

Crook in hand

Like Pavlov

Whistles for his dogs

© Bex Tate

Facebook to contact 87 million users affected by data breach

Bex Tate, frustrated with the data driven education system, recently left behind her job as a Kindergarten teacher to spend time writing and pondering life. Writing poetry helps her to try and make sense of the world...as well as giving her the chance to rant a bit!!

Goodbye to Facebook

It’s been a long time coming.

We’ve been on and off for years.

You reeled me in at the start,

Reconnecting me with old friends

and pictures of cute puppies -

both kinds!

But, just like all the rest,

you became more needy,

Stealing all of my friends,

copying my likes and dislikes.

Revenge Porn was a new low.

People like you are why blocking was created.

It had become an abusive relationship.

Demanding to know my whereabouts

at all hours.

Telling me where to shop, socialize,

who to be friends with.

I deleted you twice before

but couldn’t resist

your intoxicating allure.

The validation your adoration gave me.

My virtual life a smokescreen

for my personal tragedies and flaws,

Every post sunk me deeper into the void.

Facebook, I’m cutting the cord.

It’s over.

I’m through.

© Katy Konrad

Dear Facebook, I'm Writing To Say Goodbye

Katy Konrad lives in the North West. Katy has performed at Callander Poetry Festival in Scotland twice. Her poem ‘Totality’ was published by Silver Birch Press in 2017.