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Crowson: My Favorite Distracting Things

Binge-watching Netflix
And shopping on Amazon
Videos of pet tricks
And following Kardashians
Basketball, football, and Taylor Swift sings
These are my favorite distracting things

When the headlines sound like “end times”
Trump outrages galore
I simply tuck my head down into the web
And distract myself once more

Facebook and X-Box
Twitter and Snapchat
A Googilion new ways to obsess and distract
Back when the Internet was first on the scene
Who knew it’d become a distraction machine?

While democracy is threatened
In a million small ways
We bow to our phones and our laptops and then
We’re happily lost in a daze

Richard Crowson is not only a editorial commentator for KMUW. He's also a cartoonist, an artist and a banjo player.