Earlier this month I declared the horsefly the antagonist of my #clmooc #feldgang.
Naturally I had to do some poetry...so I tried to describe the most annoying thing in my physical world with the most annoying thing in the digital world...horseflies link to recording in case iframe is getting stripped out.
The vanity of tabanidae
Dive bombing Dipterous
Of data
Flying into your phone
Never leaving you alone
On two wings,
making your phone sing
A lonely sound
Drowned out by all those
around
Heads down, thumb scroll
The gadfly takes a constant
Toll
Hunting for attention
A technological convention
Promising ascencsion
Instead
Colossus Proboscis
Hold us in suspension
As the mouthparts
Suck our attention
The blood of thought
All for not
Under the onslaught
Heads down, thumb scroll
The gadfly takes a constant
Toll
Notifications take flight
Looking for a fight
Endless durartion
The stabbing ping
A constant ring
An ablation of presence
Stolen by the essence
Blood letting at our
Expense
Want freedom from the Gadflys?
Turn off notifications.