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This Uncanny Valley

A limerick

By CJ MillerPublished 3 years ago โ€ข Updated 3 years ago โ€ข 1 min read

Touch was once a verb for embracing another's skin

Now we fumble about screens that demand a bloody PIN

Depression's on the rise

There's longing in our eyes

Intimacy fell upon the sword of social din

social commentary

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CJ Miller

Author โ€ข Dog mom โ€ข Castaway

"Think of this: that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other."

- A.S. Byatt

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  • D. ALEXANDRA PORTER2 years ago

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