Susan--
This is the second poem of yours I've read and it's another master class in metric rhyming poetry. Bravo!
I agree with everything the others have said complimenting your rhymes and rhythms and the use of the repeated "all the rage". Wonderful. My one problem with this poem is that I think the idea that Tinder might "assuage our tendency to..." just doesn't make sense to me. I pre-date Tinder by a bit, though, so I might not understand it. My thought is that Tinder exists, not to assuage, but to catalyze banter, deflection, connection, and disengagement. That is, Tinder wins when people couple/uncouple chronically and keep coming back for more. I wonder if anyone is naive enough about Tinder's purpose to grant you the logic of the poem that it's there to help you find true love? Anyway, I keep reading that line "all the love in Tinder can't assuage" and getting stuck.
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