7 fake news poems made by connecting various poetic truths

rendered during the Fake News Poetry Workshop at Devil's Dyke Network in Brighton, England. Photos of the groupings that begame these poems are available in this Workshop's "Media" collection.

1. Forget THE AUDIENCE

text buzzes & belly-rumbles

could our bodies be recording
devices that receive and share other’s
truths

His behavior on Instagram
Was not far from his
reality


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #15: "the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material results."


2. WE FLATTEN. HUMAN TOUCH

Being together,
Feeling, acknowledging
And letting it go.
I REFLECT
SOMETHING

BODIES RECEVING


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #97: "digital participation is reflexive."


3. I never noticed the tinnitus in my ears

Always checking

Cohesion
and fragments
together

IMAGES
MIRROR IMAGES

Always there to push me back as
I push in equal measure.


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #70: "reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted," which itself refers to the billboard intervention, "Visible Distance/ Second Sight (Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino) for Desert X," by Jennifer Bolande.


4. I have a terrible story about social media

SPIT IT
OUT

lying is easier on the internet

Does your body panic?


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #83: "focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews."


5. Contrived moment

Something weird happened
To TIME

AT THE BACK
OF MY TONGUE

My body is the noise of
Everything I ever liked

Mutating like slime
mould

What if the mirror
Was our own
body?


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #95: "people actually DO get it," a contribution to the online digital media literacy primer by my sister, Antonia Juhasz, a leading energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil.


6. It is not immateralised it is lost.

ALL I WANT
TO BE

I DO NOT NEED 1000
FOLLOWERS I JUST
NEED MY MOM

Loss when it is not
there, loss when
it is there.

The irony in having

A body now


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #27: "new image holding environments needed," based upon my review of the ICP photography show Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change.


7. NOT FLAT ENOUGH

it has to be
autonomous

me as productivity machine
programmed by my phone
input+data+body = product (ivity)

The space between
Liberation and entrapment


A loose response to #100hardtruths-#fakenews #37: "size matters; we have to be minimalist" which refers to the words of filmmaker, Agnes Varda: “We have to be minimalist. A small event, if we can understand it, reconciles us a little bit with the world.”