we walk with our ipods as appendages
to our ears; cell phones hanging
like jewelry upon our heads.
eyes cast down in hopes
of avoiding unfamiliar contact or
hanging to sputter an ungrateful hello.
Instead we study cracks, as if our lives
don't already have enough of them; some thick
like veins that pulse life
to each heart; others
thin and frayed- stripped
wire upon the grown. Nevertheless,
eventually they all find their way to a stop.
Crashing somewhere down the lin