Electronii

What would I do without this small box with tiny keys?

Would I read a book in the sun or enjoy the ocean's breeze?

Perhaps I’d walk the dog or to housework I would tend

Compose a letter, weed the garden or dine with my best friend

“Keeping in touch” through technology – feels as if something has died

Instead of being liberated, I am somehow unnaturally tied

To electronic gadgetry-widgetry-wizardry, however large or small

Electronii plural-portable ever with me; I won’t miss a text or call

The paranoia of being unreachable - part of our cold new world, so brave

Begs the question, which must be asked … are we now master or slave?

Chicken-Little Magpies

 

Chicken-Little Magpies

tweeting and twittering

screech the horror of falling skies

each new nano-second

I am plugged in

I know ... smut sells
but also
it smells
of someone else's pain and funk

Did I need to  …

revel in the excesses/distresses
headlines: "He Confesses"
dysfunctional antics
as addiction regresses
a once brilliant talent
into the public butt of jokes?

get the down low
low down
oh, so slow
blow-by-blow
of an Uber-rich couple’s break-up/breakdown
uptown
smackdown?

Does knowing that the Governor’s hemorrhoids

are healing nicely now

add anything

to my person

my mental state

or the richness of my life?

It upsets me

that war, disaster and poverty are too

ubiquitous

and mundane

to hold our stunted attention spans

Go stuff your trash talking “news”

I don’t care who is diddling whom
if whom prefers boys to girls

or which politician rates highest on the scale of slimy

Scandal-Rama is so last year

So get hip you Magpies …

tell me something

worth hearing

sensational because it is so
inspirational

uplift me
so I can lift up
my family
my community

my world

Tell me something
that will enrich us all
or tell me nothing,
nothing at all

Digital Technol Oh Gee

zeroes and ones - zeroes and ones
seem so chaotic
haphazard
too simple
yet everything runs on
zeroes and ones - zeroes and ones
are ordered; not random
always working in tandem
those zeroes and ones - zeros and ones


symmetry through digits
has created the widgets
we believe we can't live without
yet man through the ages
has thrived using pages
made of vellum or paper, no doubt


the pen and the pencil have days which are numbered
I fear this is all but too true
like the abacus and slide rule
they are facing extinction
and one day will be viewed at the zoo


zeroes and ones - zeroes and ones
are changing our world as you read
we trade insults and info
and all the world's knowledge
at magical, lightening speed


those zeroes and ones - zeroes and ones
are ordered; not random
always working in tandem
zeroes and ones - zeros and ones