7 fake news poems made by connecting various poetic truths

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."

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.”