mwah!
Air kisses
distant cousins of those other modern affectations
fist touch
elbow touch
mwah!
I’ve often wondered where air kisses end up
those vacuous
virtue signalling
symbols of the shallowness of modern life
designed more for affect than a genuine effect
the ‘affect’ being an exaggerated and theatrical gesture
the ‘effect’ being to be seen – and heard
real connection nowhere to be seen
or experienced
mwah!
do air kisses just fade into nothingness
condemned to a brief fleeting existence
then gone
unremarked
unremarkable
unremembered
unloved
meaningless
mwah!
or do they live on for eternity
condemned from their delivery
to exist in another world
the junkyard of empty gestures
living with their embarrassment
forever
shamed again and again
by any comparison to real affection
mwah!
BRUCE ESPLIN
bnealmostzen
October 2022
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