from Wordsworth, It’s in your Pocket

Wordsworth wrote this poem to Akiko in his effort to bring her back from her electronically addicted world.

 

Akiko

iPOd, iPhone, iTune

iSolate friend from friend.

Return to the world we once knew

When there was no cyberspace

Between us all, forever and ever

Until the end.

 

Remember those words

That once flowed from your heart.

Where did they go

Those images and song?

Are they lost in your wireless wires

Or have they vanished into thin air?

 

Oh, don’t you miss

Real friends like us,

Instead of cartoon characters

On computer screens?

Can they read your poems?

Talk story with you?

Can you splash in waves

Or walk the shores

With animated friends

On computer screens?