To Post or Not to Post (Hamlet’s dilemma in 2024)

To post, or not to post, that is the question.

Should I stop playing computer Solitaire

And tweet, I mean post, a delicious dollop

of gossip under my username on X

In a sea of virtual anonymity?

Or should I first weigh the harm that my missive

Might bring to another, not to mention

Consequences to my handle’s rep, if false?

Is it better to post and watch my thread grow

With agreeable replies flooding in like

A jackpot of coins in an old slot-machine,

Not to mention all the prospective reposts?

But what if the replies are just so hateful

That I cannot live with myself anymore?

To post or not to post? I am so consumed

With this existential question that I

Cannot be bothered with world news of wars

And national reports of strife and injustice.

Sigh, I will put off my posting dilemma.

Right now, I will put the red six just below

The black seven, and move my King of Diamonds;

It is easier to ponder Solitaire.