Attention Span
Twenty-First Century Social Commentary
By Randy Wayne Jellison-KnockPublished 3 months ago • 1 min read
Photo by Pearse O'Halloran on Unsplash
Senryu for you
Fifteen seconds all that’s due
Comment & you’re through.
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Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock
Retired Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church having served for a total of 30 years in Missouri, South Dakota & Kansas.
Born in Watertown, SD on 9/26/1959. Married to Sandra Jellison-Knock on 1/24/1986. One son, Keenan, deceased.
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Comments (19)
Blame it on social media. We are all doomed. Clever.
Concentrated cheekiness...shines through all that meekiness 🤣 *I cannot be helped* 😆
I love me a squirrel! 😁
Lol... Unfortunately, for some of us, fifteen minutes of fame has morphed into fifteen minutes of shame. I won't say who the current ringleader is, but I can tell you that they've extended their 15 min by several hours. Quit hogging all the shame! "In other news, Donald Trump has went off the deep..."
There's a deliciously flippant undercurrent happening here, and I love it!
This is brilliant...and it's something I fight with. I was born and lived a lot before smartphones, streaming and all that - check, I'm sorta old! lol. I find it difficult most days to commit to reading long pieces on here (saw what you had said to others) but that's not so much an attention span issue than a time issue. lol. Anyway, look at the amount of words your tiny senryu has generated in the comments - fine work sir!
Lol, like Hannah, I had to read it twice because I was like "Oh, that's it?" Lol. I mean, it reflects your title hahahahaha. Nowadays we have such short attention span. Well at least I do, lol
You know, I had fifteen seconds to spare and I thought "How can I put that to good use?" Et voila! Randy's senryu appears in my notifications. Perfect! And so on point.
🤣 I love it Randy
Andy Warhol's 15 minutes squeezed into 15 seconds. Now that's a short attention span! Commentary about the nature of Vocal commentary perhaps? I do love a good provocateur.
Humorously nailed it!!!❤️❤️💕
I’m through haha. Nicely done Randy.
Great stuff, Bro... Oh, look, a squirrel!!!
Andy Warhol would not be surprised that his predicted 15 minutes of fame has shrunk so significantly
Nice! Funny and I enjoyed!
I felt like this was asmr in poem form
I have no idea why, but that made me read it twice. Contrary!
A Suite Of Shortness Great stuff Randy
Brilliant! I'm an 80's kid...Planet of the Apes first time round...I got some attention span 😁