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Monday, August 26, 2024

Socialist Sonnet No. 161

War Gamers

 

Night by night sitting like obsessed gamers

Fixated on screens. This evening’s download

Could be Gaza, Ukraine, somewhere abroad.

Graphics are so realistic, the framers

Ensure all players are fully in-shot,

Both perpetrators and victims portrayed

In role, with impressive weapons arrayed:

Rack up more points than last night? Perhaps not.

A helpful voiceover or avatar

Pops up whenever there’s something to say,

To grab attention when it’s drifting away,

Or tempted to upload another war.

The spectacular needs to be massive,

For viewers to be retained and passive.

 

D. A.

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