Poetry 18 - Internet in Person (When the Internet Closes at 12:00AM)

When the Internet Closes at 12:00AM (Internet in Person)

Work to do, Reddit to scroll,
and the time is dwindling
like snow under salt.

The Midnight Community Library opens,
as their browsers close.
The last minute workers and others alike
fly into the building.
They are burning and the library is a waterfall
of knowledge and connection and business and recreation.

The printers’ noise matches that
of the youth music room.

The quiet consolation chamber:
the sad part of Tumblr,
crammed into one room filled
with crying teenagers
and
weeping elders.

So much humanity,
humanity, humanity, humanity.
Communion,
squashed into one building.

This is
the internet in person.