preached all day long about smartphone addiction while his daughter was on her smartphone, ignoring him
“A human life,” he was saying. “Controlled by a piece of plastic with lights. A destiny completely determined by a machine designed by corporations to become god, to claim souls. How blind, how utterly and impossibly blind a whole generation of human beings can be. To willingly subject themselves to slavery like that. Their thumbs and fingers always tap-tap-tapping that screen as if trying to break their soul free from beyond. But it never happens. You cannot break a door by merely knocking on it...”
“Whatever, dude,” said his daughter with the phone before her face
He shook his head and then looked at me. This time I too was looking at my phone. “I see she has corrupted you too,” he said. “Shame. I was hoping it could be the other way around just for once.”
I let the phone down. “Me? Oh no, I was just checking my e-mail. I've sent some poems to a bunch of publishers and was hoping to see a reply or something.”
They had the poor girl lie on the cold tile floor and then they all pissed on her and you could hear them tell her to open her mouth wide and stick her tongue out It was one of the poorest videos on the site but the women watching it recognized the girl She went to the same high school as them back in the day
So trashy porn is what she turned to
Not exceptionally unusual, but one of the kids running in the park before them was her child Just eight or nine
"You know," said one of them. "Like it or not it's just a matter of time until our sons catch wind of this and then..."
"Oh my..."
"Goodness!"
"The sins of the parents are visited upon the children. It's not fair. Imagine the life her poor kid's gonna have."
"Yeah, our own kids might very well be the bullies, we'll never know. Like I said, it's a matter of time..."
"Well, goodness, what can we do about it?"
"Flag the video?"
"You know it won't work..."
"Oh, I got an idea. What if... you know, what if we all uploaded sexy vids of us. Um, not necessarily as trashy as this one but just pornographic enough. The boys won't be able to gang up and bully one if all their mothers did it... Right? C'mon, let's do it for that poor kid. Think about his future..."
Daydreaming as a profession 