MY FIRST COPY BOOK

jerry KWATCHEY
@kwatcheyjerry128608
9 days ago

#poetry
“MY FIRST COPY BOOK”

This generation is drifting backward.
Back to that “My First Copy Book” era
where pictures were spaced between every few words
just to keep a child from getting bored…

Back when your imagination had to grow teeth.
Back when the world inside your mind expanded
as the pictures disappeared.

But look around now.

We’re raising grown toddlers with barren imaginations.
Adults who cannot process a sentence
unless it’s dripping in over-designed visuals,
animations, filters, sound effects
like the story must spoon-feed them meaning
because their minds can no longer create worlds on their own.

We’ve become a horde of
“My First Copy Book Readers” in adult bodies
people fascinated by the simplest narration,
overwhelmed by subtlety,
incapable of depth unless it’s illustrated like a kindergarten manual.

This is not evolution.
This is regression wrapped in aesthetics.
A generation so overstimulated
they’ve lost the ability to imagine without instructions.

A Reflection from the SIMU Collection.

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