Poem #2,750 | We tap

We tap – easily-liking
photographs of auld
friends via Facebook
until we die [without
meeting up those all
untouched – ones we
regard] – Such is life –
cheap addiction met
online – My overseas
family shelters from
unwanted images [a
bloody swift stream
of cuts & shots] – We
should avert eyes as
if blind – my nephew
is a new father & sits
in Israel in tears – he
bears parenthood’s
weakness for others
[life he’s never met]