Facebook’s Throw Back Thursday
Can be a problem first the ordinary
Ones is the picture clear enough
Why waste time with blurred or
Shaky pix now we see immediately
Then we had to wait for the film
To come back earlier from the shop
Later through the mail second it
Isn’t the best somebody’s crawling
In or out sneezing instead of smiling
Picking their nose or worse then
There’s bad lighting or the flash
Didn’t go off but the famous gleam
In the subject’s eye is only in the
Memory of the cameraman not
The image and just to prove FB
Is a social medium of the middle
Classes there’s always one where
They’re now divorced but they
Looked happy then can’t use that
Or the one who smiled but
Went to prison or was killed
Driving drunk nobody wants
To remind anyone living through
That again once bad enough
Of course from those days even
Before I remember my parents
Had one where my dad’s backside
Is as prominent as the moon on
The horizon with a polished
Pants bottom to boot him
Bending over to adjust a child
In front of a Christmas tree group
The kids are only legs shoulders
Appearing as shadows behind
The mammoth posterior why’d
You take such a picture I was
Just holding the camera and it
Went off mine are of me digging
To plant a tree next to the garage
My ex and I at first bought real
Trees intended for our yard
Eventually we switched to a
Table-top I think it ended up
With her now I hang two small
Wreaths on my front doors
Enough for Loki Sophia me
We generally didn’t show old
Photos around slides were indeed
A social event back from an
Exotic vacation magic lantern
In a dark room canapes closing
With coffee hugs at the door
So glad you came that was social
Sometimes boring as hell but
You mingled maybe talked to a
Friend or touched someone’s
Hand passing pie and ice cream
Not this post and wait for likes
Too easy friendship if they bore
Keep them as friends but prohibit
Their posts from getting anywhere
Dangerously close to you
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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