Independent Poem 3 - Aliza Bakht

Fiction

The problem became that of the present.

It started moving too soon.

New news became old new before

The new news could even be processed.

Content became intimidating.

Information expanded and memory

Was overcrowded with empty facts

And a wide variety of search results.

Suddenly, too many posts on Instagram

Started flashing within very little time.

Data started to overpower the mind.

The past was looked at and  

The future examined over and over

But without any successful solution.

Eventually machines became memory support

Designed for making the mind more efficient.

And fiction finally ceased to exist.