⚢    ⚣    ⚤    ♐ ☁   ♀    ♡ ♨  ♁     ☺⚧    ☺    ⚘     ⚥♥⚦  ⚨  ☺    ☺   ☺  ♂  ☺     ☺ ⚩ ♪

      ONLINE INTIMACY

       

      when you're bored
      you can sign on
      to the electronic full-love-think board

      these days
      you can meet & message
      through electronic passage

      whatever you say
      can be found but not be traced?
      it can be edited & re-phrased

      whatever you say
      be it rude words or embarrassing phrases
      won't make you sound like a savage

      even if you've unintentionally
      emitted electronic sting-ray
      the situation can be salvaged

      these days
      romance is a click or double-click away
      & love is only a few key strokes away

      love habits can be exhibited
      amongst the most sophisticated social circuits
      and be transmitted via printed circuits

      through e-mail or voice-mail friendship
      virtual reality or photo-realistic relationship
      chronic partnership can become a permanent kinship

      nevertheless, such mail-feed-mail relationship
      can sometimes be misused by black sheep
      to multitask and network relationship

      behind electronic packets
      love rockets
      but, there exists electronic pickpockets

      behind electronic sockets
      electronic etiquette
      be manipulated or fascinated?

      whatever you select
      such is online intimacy
      behind screen safety!

       

      Lin Hsin Hsin
      August 21, 1993

       

      electronic full-love-think board = electronic bulletin board

      first published on p.235 Sunny Side UP!, 1994,
      ISBN10: 981-00-5840-3 (paper),
      ISBN13: 978-981-00-5840-1 (paper), 288 pp, 5 color