Have You Ever Noticed That When People Look at Their Phones, It’s Always with a Vacant Stare?, by Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Have You Ever Noticed That When People Look at Their Phones, It’s Always with a Vacant Stare?

Big Brother used to just

Cross his fingers

To avoid telling the truth

Then uncrossed them into a

V for Vacancy

But times have changed

And with them his method

So, now he leads a sing-along

In his signature falsetto

And the vacancy is as permanent as the revolution

Just as long as he never strikes a false note

Which is what Auto-Tune is for

Rendering all things pitch-perfect

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Have You Ever Noticed That When People Look at Their Phones, It’s Always with a Vacant Stare?

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