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# Split Screens
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/split-screens/
- Published: 2026-06-16T16:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-16T16:47:00.000Z
- Description: “Split Screens” a snapshot of "me time" shared with others, written Tuesday, June 16, poem 167 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, "Dirty Duo on Treads," by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Generational, Humor, Long form musings, Perimenopause, Poems, Accountability Partner, Airport Marshalling, Apple Watch, Booty Shot, Cell Phones, Conversations, Cool Down, Divorce, Don't Look Back, Husband, June, Peloton, relationships, Spilt Screens, Streaming Consciousness, Tuesday, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

On the large flat screen display,   
two cheeky instructors direct   
— and distract —   
me through   
a walk + run workout.  
Something to do about a booty shot  
and getting the camera crew to angle up.  
  
My hand, however, glows blue.  
I’m volleying between   
three distinctly   
different conversations:  
  
A text window blinks  
with my streaming consciousness   
as I correspond synchronously  
with my remote running   
accountability partner.  
We’re processing   
our run in real time:  
"OMG they're trying to slay us!"  
"He looks cute--"  
"Not cute enough to kill us though!"  
"Is 6.8 mph really 'conversation pace'?!"  
  
Meanwhile  
in a thread with my husband,   
we storm through banal logistics   
pertaining to heat wave camp delays  
and mid-week dinner options.  
  
In a third little screen  
I swipe over to an emergent chat   
with a soul sister in need   
of being held and seen.  
I hear her words, and I know before she knows.  
Her marriage is over.  
She needs an egress, and swiftly.  
I navigate her through   
the departure of her marriage  
like an airport marshaller with glow sticks  
guiding her up and away  
with calm arm motions  
fly far, fly fast, fly clean,   
*don't look back.*  
  
By the time I enter Cool Down   
in my Peloton class,  
I have saved a woman's dignity  
planned two meals  
adjusted for camp chaos  
cheered on a fitness buddy  
and completed enough cardio   
to hit my Apple Watch goals for the day.  
  
Split Screens - never calming,   
but productive.