There are millions of circuit boards a million buttons
a million screens
a million console controllers
there is the joy of leaving here
for a million conquests
in a million games
a million levels
a million reasons to abandon
a million hours of
us
these millions leave us empty on the other side
empty backyards
empty conversations
around empty dinner tables
a million virtual deaths
a million trolls
a million bosses
a million power ups
and 'game over's
creating hollow places
where conversation grew
and tables filled
with eyes
and hands
and us
and real
but real is old
and replaced for a million reasons
new and noisy,
new and flashy,
all new and 'must have'
and thus they say
the million sells
and all is well
but this all this
and nothing next to real.
-- Paul Reynolds, with obvious thanks to and inspiration from the Reggio Approach Founder Loris Malaguzzi's "The Hundred Languages of Childhood."
