by Jennifer Weigel
Checking in every minute, interrupting work and play, demanding all my attention. Monitoring my calls and texts, everything I read, every website I visit. Following me everywhere I go, everything I do and don’t do, every stop along the way. Knowing when I’m out late, if I’m someplace I shouldn’t be, whatever I might be doing. Recognizing me out and about, taking note of whom I’m with, both coming and going. Recording everything I eat, how much water I drink, my sleeping and waking patterns. Chastising me for how many steps I take how much exercise I get, my active and still heart rate. Logging my monthly cycles; whether or not I may be pregnant, when I am likely to become so. Tracking all of this information to share with the highest bidders, not always asking permission. Seeking to sell me on new products, new experiences, and new ideas.
But how do you break up with a smartphone?
Multi-disciplinary mixed media conceptual artist Jennifer Weigel lives in Kansas, USA. Weigel has been a regular contributor to Haunted MTL and is involved with Nat1 Publishing. Author of Witch Hayzelle’s Recipes for Disaster novella /chapbook trilogy and a myriad of short stories, poems, art discourse, and more drifting around the Interwebs. Visit https://jenniferweigelart.com/.
This piece was selected as a runner up of our ‘Lies’ writing competition.
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