Dating Apps

A smiling face lights the screen

Like so many before

Three sentences, if that, to tell their story

Quiet desperation wrapped the myth of a photoshopped joy

Study the face for two seconds

Swipe left, swipe right

Is this what we have become?

YOU HAVE A NEW MATCH!

Could this be the one?

Hell, could this be A one?

Say, "Hello," and something else.

Be cute, but not too whitty (they may not get it).

Send it off, this the tenth one today.

All of the, "how are you" and "I'm doing well!"

Just as fake as everywhere else.

And then many times more.

Exchange a few lines, they just fade away

They don't want to know, "How was your day?"

If they do hang around, it is always the same

"Let's meet for coffee" is so very lame.

The beige ones are pathetic

Their life has drained away

They have no opinions

And nothing real to say

Then we meet pretentious

With their noses in the air

We should be in awe of them

Yet they make it hard to care

Some look so good on paper

When meeting face to face

It is clear they have not showered

And their odor clears the place

Some are always shouting

And some can only whisper

Conversation dies both ways

With either of these misters

Damn they are cute

The profile pic is FINE

One moment captured

Ten years ago in time

I only eat "organic"

I'm paleo, it's true

You have to make it vegan

No, I can't cook for you.

This one says they're kinky

I wonder what they dare?

I think ropes and razor blades

They say, pulling hair?

A random encounter

In the real world you see

We came face to face

Could it be destiny?

We laugh and flirt and carry on

And learn so much, so fast

Things that can't be gleaned

From the screen's protective glass

When we dare to venture out

To the real world

To have a real life

What happens could make us twirl.