Facebook Whale

Facebook Whale logs on.
Mister popularity
cannot understand.

Twenty-nine new friends requests;
to decline seems impolite.

SuperPoke to test
noviciate acolytes.
Famous but lonely -
meaningless celebrity.
Minnows school in the shallows
hungry for banality.

Here in murky depths
the whale longs for company.
Surfaces for breath,
ignores notifications.
Bubbling babble
breaking the surf. A message
undeliverable,
as fragmented syllables
swim free of fraying
trans-oceanic cables.
Fibre optic arrhythmia.

When craving true love,
the mermaid found her land-legs:
Walked upon the earth.