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<p>Ain’t w’all forgetting_<br>
how to be human. <br>
W’all be texting, <br>
tweeting, hanging-out with<br>
a thousand strangers,<br>
and we lose touch with<br>
the ones we do know.<br>
Last week; two suicides,<br>
the week before; three, <br>
this week, we dunno yet, <br>
but don’t worry, you’ll be<br>
the first to get the tweet, birdie! </p>



<p>Little wonder how<br>
Insta and Twitter get_<br>
to be the first announcers <br>
of these tragedies. <br>
Obviously, there are <br>
not many real first responders.<br>
If, just if, those people <br>
had people around them, <br>
who ain’t glued to screens<br>
of little computers, maybe <br>
there might have been a <br>
different eventuality.</p>



<p>People should check on<br> people, not just their tweets,<br> snaps, insta-posts, whatsapp <br> statuses. People should care <br> for people, physically and<br> emotionally. People should call <br> people, nostalgic for the <br> ol’days when we sit by<br> the phone, waiting for the <br> call of a relative or a friend. </p>



<p>Technology is supposed to <br>
bring us together, not apart,<br>
tech is cool, but you shouldn’t <br>
only greet your neighbour G.M on<br>
WhatsApp just cause you were <br>
both online at 5:45am.<br>
We ain’t becoming computers, <br>
we’re becoming weird, <br>
cause computers don’t forget <br>
to update and pop notifications,<br>
even your TECNO F9 keeps <br>
telling you that it has a glitch <br>
which you’ll fail to treat<br>
till it crashes. W’all too glued <br>
to screens that we’re not <br>
cognizant of our world.</p>



<p>Check the social media,<br>
observe the emotional meter, <br>
don’t it seem like everyone is<br>
whining and bitter at something <br>
they can’t even address directly, <br>
they just come online and <br>
cast their stones into the cloud.<br>
True, the world ain’t fair, but <br>
doesn’t mean we can’t be fair. </p>



<p>We mustn’t forget how<br>
to be available, physically and <br>
emotionally. A million emoji, snaps, <br>
statuses, tweets can’t substitute <br>
the feeling of another hand <br>
holding yours, the comfort and <br>
succour that another voice gives.<br>
W’all guilty somehow, so<br>
let’s work to make living easier, <br>
first, by caring for each other,<br>
It’s gonna get better.</p>
 
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HOW TO BE A HUMAN (a poem by Oluwaseyi Olatunji)
