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Before Computers

Do you remember before computers We actually spoke with each other We cared whenever our kids got sick And knew the address of our mother Today we sit at our laptops all day Surrounded by dirty old dishes Wearing clothes from two weeks ago Smelling like a kettle of fishes What is this crazy old world coming to Lost sight of the things that matter Like how many kids we had at last count Or that we're thirty pound fatter! We sit like a proverbial bump on a log Our words incoherent and slurred All kinds of animals are running about Your pet cat just ate your pet bird Maybe one day in a decade of two They'll discover what once was a human Propped in front of an ancient computer In his ears petunias will be bloomin'

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Date: 3/12/2023 12:34:00 PM

Jack I loved your poem, but I loved John Lawless's comment more ! Is that allowed ?

John Lawless

Date: 2/27/2023 9:51:00 AM

I always enjoy going to the store, paying in CASH. And just for fun when the bill is $4.25 giving them $5.25 and watching them go into mathematical terror.

Jack Ellison
Date: 2/27/2023 10:03:00 AM

(Big chuckle John Lawless!) Going to store was the highlight of my day back then! Buying something new I didn't have before! Exciting!

Tom Cunningham

Date: 2/27/2023 7:24:00 AM

They were the good old days Jack, now everything is done by phone and computer. Got to our local store one day and because their computer was down had to close the store, unbelievable, why couldn't they do it like the old days, good old one on one contact. Remember the millennium bug, they said planes would drop out of the sky, banks would lose money, what happened? nothing. Man is an idiot. Tom

Jack Ellison
Date: 2/27/2023 7:41:00 AM

I remember it so well!!! We're still here, still smiling! The good old days eh... planes are still flying... man is STILL(xomhfagv) an idiot! Trump???? Putin????

Daniel Turner

Date: 2/27/2023 6:58:00 AM

Agreed Jack. The internet has ruined mankind but had it not been that it would have been something else. We're not really that bright.

Jack Ellison
Date: 2/27/2023 7:20:00 AM

You sure got that right! We are destined to eventually destroy ourselves! :( Uh speak for yourself there Sir Daniel! LOL I'll still be around writing these fabulous pieces of creative! Are you having a good day?