Your Poetry Dot Com - Social Media Gone Too Far

Array ( [sid] => 181261 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Social Media Gone Too Far [time] => 2015-06-10 17:57:57 [hometext] => A true story about a teenager's funeral that turned into a fiasco. The social media groupies used the venue to have a Facebook party. One hundred people were expected to attend. Over one thousand did instead. [bodytext] => Hey all you Facebookers listen to me
I'm not some teenager laid out in bed
You're at a funeral home visiting the dead

I may be in this coffin, a sight to see
Unable to breathe
My life is now gone
But I have my family here to be with me

This ain't no party, not about you
Not a happening place to be
You're not a writer or a star
You'll get no critical acclaim from me

Who invited you anyway
A bunch of wannabes
With no other place to be
I didn't know you before
Why now do you throw yourself at me

A funeral is what it is
For my extended family
Including me
Show your disingenuous self to the door
Don't come around here no more

Twitter is for twits
Myspace is not yours
Get your face out of my book
This is my funeral, not a venue for entertainment whores [comments] => 1 [counter] => 316 [topic] => 48 [informant] => jamesstockdale [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry ) Your Poetry Dot Com - Social Media Gone Too Far

Social Media Gone Too Far
Date: Wednesday, 10th June 2015 @ 05:57:57 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: jamesstockdale

Hey all you Facebookers listen to me
I'm not some teenager laid out in bed
You're at a funeral home visiting the dead

I may be in this coffin, a sight to see
Unable to breathe
My life is now gone
But I have my family here to be with me

This ain't no party, not about you
Not a happening place to be
You're not a writer or a star
You'll get no critical acclaim from me

Who invited you anyway
A bunch of wannabes
With no other place to be
I didn't know you before
Why now do you throw yourself at me

A funeral is what it is
For my extended family
Including me
Show your disingenuous self to the door
Don't come around here no more

Twitter is for twits
Myspace is not yours
Get your face out of my book
This is my funeral, not a venue for entertainment whores

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