Answer: Gary Turk's spoken-word poem's theme develops from technology being a distraction from time spent with others to technology taking away opportunities in life that we could have had if we paid more attention to our surroundings. On line 2 it says "I speak to all of them every day yet none of them really know me" this explains how a person may feel if they and their friends spend all their time online communicating rather than having conversations in real life. While communicating to someone via text there are nonverbal cues that are lost. Then, on lines 73-74 the poem says "But none of these times ever happened. You never had any of this when you’re too busy looking down, you don’t see the chances you miss" which explains that looking down at your phone causes you to lose sight in everything else that is around you. You could miss opportunities that could have changed your life just because you were too preoccupied staring at a screen.
Note: sorry if this doesnt make sense, I tried to answer it to the best of my abilitiy lol. I had to answer the same question and this is just what I said.
