Puffery
A Poem
Published in
Mar 18, 2024
Look at everyone out there
with all of the abject puffery
surrounding their carefully
curated online profiles
so that everyone thinks
that they are someone else
As if the puff won’t deflate
in real life, in the real world,
when you can’t color-correct
that image of yourself
or swap out the background
or have AI write the caption
What happens then?
Maybe a small portion of you
shows up, finally, amidst
all of the sandstorms
blowing through our feeds
and when we stand back
far enough from the blizzard
we realize it’s all just puffery
© Jonathan Greene 2024
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