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You draw the runes and enter my world, will you destroy it or set me free? You read the stones and recite its oath, we are all whom we pretend to be I spotted you near my poison tree, merely searching for forbidden fruit I witnessed you shake its heavy limbs, as*aulting its hidden whitethorn root Its frail leaves were wraiths of withered hate, Its branches contorted in violence Its trunk knew nought of beauty and bliss, only to hide behind tears of silence You seemed to be from another realm, your actions savage and full of blame Its defence of poison was useless, against a heart filled with lust and shame You swiftly climbed its slippery bark, worn thin and feeble from brutal pain You st*ipped its boughs of buds and blossoms, slain by hostile winds and tainted rain You reached out to grasp its sacred fruit, Its voice was timid and low and weak A trickle of blood seeped from its mouth, disturbingly scarlet against its pale cheek. Written in 2018. ‘The Poison Tree’ won two awards; The Mayoral Creative Writing Prize 15-17 Years Poetry and 2nd Place for the SDEHS Twitter serves as a means of expediently connecting people and fostering an exchange of ideas to an entire globe that was once limited to geographic circulation boundaries. Technological and cultural change has transformed the way acting prosumers respond to the nature of digital writing media in new ways. Nicotra claims that the traditional definitions of writing have become ‘constrictive’ as it is no longer solely about “the act of producing a discrete textual object.” (Nicotra, 2009, p. 259). The advent of the internet and other communication technologies has changed the way that we read and write, allowing for a prosumer model in which remediation continues to multiply the amount of available content rapidly. Photo: rawpixel.com Twitter builds ties to the community by connecting members with similar interests through a process of multi-user tagging. Hashtags are utilised “as a way to clas*ify messages and have since become a cultural phenomenon” (Nelson & Widder, 2017). Twitter’s