I’m using the internet
\nbecause I can’t sleep
\nand I can’t sleep
\nbecause I’m using the internet<\/p>\n
caught
\nin a refresh cycle
\nupdating
\nevery
\npage
\nin the hope that something has changed
\nbut nothing has<\/p>\n
and when something is looked at this closely
\nthis constantly
\nthe illusion is created
\nthat nothing ever does
\nnor ever will<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written in early 2018<\/em> I’m using the internet because I can’t sleep and I can’t sleep because I’m using the internet caught in a refresh cycle updating every page in the hope that something has changed but nothing has and when something is looked at this closely this constantly the illusion is created that nothing ever does nor ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[119,808,191,581],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-ephemera","tag-loops","tag-poems","tag-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. But could really have been written at any point<\/em>
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