Seals, Flies, and Foxes

Equi’s guess is correct—

It’s not just now you see

What you want to see, you

Always did. It’s just now,

There’s an infrastructure

To make that easier,

To sell your bespoke views

Back to you as the news.

In the old days, demons

And fairies made themselves

Visible to you, since

You could see them in seals,

Insects, trees, and foxes.

Since you wanted to see.

We have that in common

With you, thanks to whom we

Exist—we can contain

Meanings mostly tailored

For what we can contain.

There’s a woman who’s watched

Too many screens we know,

Who now sees ghostly eyes

In her bedroom shadows.

We know. We know. We know.