Yesterday I decided to look for a bunch of my old 'notes' on my iPhone and found a few old poems and short story, this is one of them.
They walk on the tram, they are wearing jelly Sandals with spotted Kmart socks and high wasted denim short shorts and a tye dyed t-shirt! They have blue head phones they are looking at their iPhone screen texting someone, they're texting so fast, after texting (someone) they then lock and unlock their phone 4 times before opening twitter they receive a text and use their thumb to switch apps to view the text they reply to the text than lock their phone they lock and than unlock several times before opening iTunes, they look through their iTunes artist list through all the artists they have, they scroll up and down so fast they choose Gina X Performance and than listen to black sheep for 7 seconds before locking the phone again they pause the song and than scroll up and down the list of artists in their iTunes than the songs, they set the iPhone to shuffle all songs on their iTunes first Geneva Jacuzzi plays than Sade than Kate Bush all of their music on their phone is performed by women! They lock their phone screen when 'I Care' plays they listen to 'I Care by Beyoncé until the guitar solo they unlock their phone they open the twitter app they start to tweet the name of a popular female artist they press the home bottom they receive a call from their mother
When I read back on this I can't help but think it must have been about gender and non gender identity or something self reflexive or perhaps the autonomy that occurs with being in public spaces with your tablet and ones own private experiences.
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