MODERN RICHES (a poem)

Likes are not a limited resource.
Yet, you withhold them.
Doling them out like tokens.
Tickets to a concert no one will attend.

A flag to say hello.
Take a look at me.

Train the system.
Each notification,
Pavlov’s modern bell.

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