Parody Contest Poems: Do Not Log Off that Good Site Tonight, by Tamarah Rockwood

Tamarah Rockwood obtained her degree in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University and is the founder and CEO of Bainbridge Island Press. She lives on Bainbridge Island, WA, with her husband and five children. They also love their cat, Yoshi, their bird, Poppy, and their flock of ducks

Do Not Log Off that Good Site Tonight
(after Dylan Thomas)

Do not log off that good site tonight

    Retinas should burn and tear at close of day;

    Scroll, scroll against the dying of the phone light.

    Although studies show that to sleep, dark is right,

And that our minds are slaves to the sun, I stay:

Do not log off that good site tonight.

    My poor husband, who rolls over in bed, crying how bright

    My Instagram feeds are, and chase all of the shadows away;

    Scroll, scroll against the dying of the phone light.

    Wild reels of song caught in candid and in flight,

    My thumbs guide this carousel that rides my nights astray;

And I do not log off that good site tonight.

    Brave men, near death, who film with reckless might

    Do they stop on the precipice of spring break cliffs? Nay.

Scroll, scroll against the dying of your phone light.

    And I, myself, hold my phone in bed at a sad height.

    My broken sleep is cursed with spools of yarns while I play:

    Do not log off that good site tonight.

    Scroll, scroll against the dying of your phone light.