What a nice park. You go ahead and play
and swing and fall and get up
and grow up
over there.
I’ll be over here. Hanging out with my phone.
Because who I am to everyone else
in the world behind this glass screen
is more important right now.
Be right there, honey.
Be right…
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Previously published on Medium.com.
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