Instead of Writing Poetry, I Doom-Scroll Instagram | Gray Davidson Carroll
I watch a protest video. I read the comments. It was so incredible. I’m so happy I was able to go. There are so many ads these days. The civilian death toll is mounting. I read an inspirational quote. React with fire emojis when I see a friend has been published in a journal I’ve been rejected from five times. I’ve written better, I think, and this is not the point. I like the new article by Them. Someone is pregnant, someone is engaged. What’s happening to Kate? It’s the anniversary of her dad’s death. Someone wants a daddy. Trump is in the news again. Someone famous died but it wasn’t him. There is a new miracle drug that will solve all your weight loss problems. Here, try the new protein powder, 10% off.
About the Author:
Gray Davidson Carroll is the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, Sage Publications, Frontiers in Medicine and elsewhere. When not reading or writing, you can typically find them drinking copious amounts of coffee at all hours of the day, or otherwise pedaling a bicycle down forgotten backroads and singing at the top of their lungs.