Reflex

Images of broken bodies
On my phone screen
Flash between videos
Of political commentary and cute cats.
I see children
Starving –
Their skin draped
Over their bones
Like shrouds
Then recipes
And Reddit stories
Read by robots.

I double tap
The cartoon heart
Pollutes the screen’s glow.
It’s reflex but not
Reverence
A comment to push
The vilest of human failures
to the algorithm.