“What shade
of red
are you?”
the words stare
at me
from a screen
and I wonder
why
the answer
matters
at all
but it does
to the 87
who commented
and the faceless
others
that contributed
to its
trending,
the generation
that desires
desperately
to find out
who what when where why how
we are
in relation
to this big world
that google
tells us is
7.1 billion
and growing
so lost
are we
among the masses,
so much
do we
want to know
ourselves
that maybe
if a quiz
says
“you are
scarlet,
brilliant
and full of
passion”
we will
believe
it
out of sheer
will
for it
to be
so.