we never walk alone

Now with Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Masterclass, Facebook, 

and the rest of the Metaverse

at our finger tips, 

we never need to be alone with our thoughts

now we rather wait alone

at clinics, i-phone stores, the line at NTUC,

so we can disappear into our own personalised vortex of mindlessness

rather than be stuck with a loved one

and be forced to make small talk 

and be bored

for a person can never quite compete 

not

with the infinite variety of the phone

I'm never alone

not with the phone 

I'd rather be alone 

with the phone.