5:30 Mass

There’s a hundred different hair-dos here

and three hundred uncoordinated outfits.

There’s pant suits and tracksuits, jeans, skirts, and dresses, 

sweatshirts, and jerseys of all kinds.

There’s a bouncing baby the next pew up—

her attention devoted to the reflection of stained glass windows on the tiled floor—

and a crying one behind.

A lone cell phone interrupts the service, and everyone rustles around, 

Checking their pockets and bags.

 

Pay attention

I can’t

We’re at church

I’m too distracted.

 

Breathe in 

a mixture of mothballs and mildew.

Breathe out

And conspicuously scan left hands, wonder who’s married, widowed, divorced.

 

He means well up there, speaking of Ugandan women and their water pails

But it’s hard to concentrate when his deep purple vestiges against the white walls strain my eyes

And his South African accent strains my ears.

Media Ecology Theory

The following passages are taken from “A First Look at Communication Theory,” by Em Griffin.  They are talking about the Media Ecology Theory which basically shows how changes in the human era can be linked to it’s pertaining media.

“Literacy also jarred people out of collective tribal involvement into “civi- lized” private detachment. Reading words, instead of hearing them, transforms group members into individuals. Even though the words may be the same, the act of reading a text is an individual one.”

This passage embodies the concept that you can read your way to the top. Who needs education when you have a library card?

” “The new tribalism is one where everyone’s buiness is everyone else’s and where we all are somewhat testy.” 8  Citizens of the world are back in acoustic space. ”

This definitely relate to the new era we’re living in now. Take Facebook for example, is it wrong to say that everyone’s business is everyone else’s when someone’s every move shows up on your Newsfeed? I think not.