Technology- written 6/12/2019

She sits on the park bench

Glued to her phone

The lone person in the world

Who can hold a human conversation without

looking down

At a screen that causes her neck damage

Tries to start a conversation with the technology zombie

The technology brontosaurus craning its

neck

to see how skilled this girl is

Her fingers flying as she scores big at Candy Crush

Her intense focus like that of a soloist

in Carnegie Hall

Playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto by

memory.

Hi

No response

How are you

Looks up–Good–then eyes back down

Isn’t it a peaceful day?

Uh-huh

You should enjoy it more

How

By getting off your technological device.

The gamer looks up

But for a short while

Shrugs her shoulders

Then goes back to her own little world

Caring little that this lone conversationalist

Once spoke with two leaders of the free

world

To abolish nuclear weapons

She sits here thinking about that dialogue

Reminiscing about how important it was

To sit

Face somebody

And communicate.