Everything wants attention.
All at the same time.
Too Much Input captures the point where ordinary noise stops arriving as separate things and becomes one continuous demand. Messages, conversations, television and music all compete for the same bit of attention until even stepping away doesn’t quieten it. Eventually there is nothing left to process; the only useful response is to switch everything off.
Too loud already
Phone lights up, then again
Different threads, different ends
Voices stack, overlap
Can’t track who said what back
TV on, someone talks
Another sound cuts across
Too much input, shut it down
Too much input, all at once
Every signal fighting now
Can’t pick one, can’t adjust
Music plays, then it clips
Someone laughs, someone shouts
I step back, doesn’t help
Still it pushes in loud
Try to filter it out
Still it breaks through the gaps
Too much input, shut it down
Too much input, all at once
Every signal fighting now
Can’t pick one, can’t adjust
Cut it off
Kill the feed
Pull the plug
Let me breathe
Too much input, shut it down
Too much input, all at once
Every signal fighting now
Can’t pick one, can’t adjust
still ringing