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 a 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' © Jack Ellison 2012