Digital Smiles

E. Hughes releases her final book of poetry, Digital Smiles (February 2024). Digital Smiles is written in both rhyme and free verse. The themes in Digital Smiles offers observations and sometimes criticism of society, how human beings engage each other on social media, the importance of time, death, and our responsibility to the humanity of others.Disinformation by E. HughesDisinformationis information of a most insidious kind.It disguises itself as truthto render us blind.It preys on our fearsplants itself in our mindsrinse and repeattwo thousand and twenty times.It provokes us to anger,sowing distrustspurring us to actsof wanton bloodlust.It is not what we seek, but often what we find.Disinformationis information of a most insidious kind.An Inconvenient Sacrifice Someone told usabout a diseasethat spread itselfthrough a gentle breezeor sometimes a coughor even a sneeze...and enters the lungsthrough the air we breatheleft us yearning for loved onesand much bereaved.For some it left themmuch aggrieved,so we hung our heads, and pretended it leftas it choked, grabbedand stole our breaths. The rich gets richerthe dead gets deaderwe sacrificed littleto make it all betterAn inconvenient sacrificelet us hope it fadesuntil it drags usinto unmarked graves.