by the proving of experience
we are no longer concerned
with wonder or adventure
but only with the ability
to have others observe us
in wonder or adventuring
hundreds of visitors see the surrounding beauty
only through their screens
incessantly documenting
but neglecting to actually be
where they are
reveling not in the majestic canyons
but in the anticipation
of the coming praise and envy
they expect to elicit
via their preferred digital attention farm
if Gaia were to kill us all
in an ecstatic rockslide
I could not fault her
so obstinate are we
in capturing her image
not out of gentle joy or grateful pleasure
but out of a perverse desire to possess
for the sole purpose of proving
in this our corrupting modern age
there is nothing more hubritic than the selfie.
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