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Experiencing Technical Difficulties

I've never twitted on Tweeter nor am I an Instagrammarian I've searched on Goggle but cannot find MyFace on the interweb I ask "how do I find the North Star?" and get 4,460,000,000 hits, mostly ads for an ice cream bar called "The Big Dipper" so I go make some toast and eat lunch at least I can work a toaster Kids think I was born in the Jurassic era believing my first job was swabbing the deck on a Byzantine sailing ship for I speak of phones connected to the wall and TV sets with 4 channels and cars that got 8 mpg I don't know url's from www's, or http's from html's my mobile phone always auttocronects my speeling and cyber censors block my search for 'penal colonies' I cannot find the mute button on Zoom so my belch might make it into the meeting minutes my internet takes regular coffee breaks and the only tweeting is the birds outside my window so I sit at my screen watching dots chase themselves in a circle trying not to get toast crumbs on my high tech keyboard Written 16 Mar 2022

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Date: 5/2/2023 11:11:00 AM
"I've searched on Goggle but cannot find MyFace on the interweb I ask "how do I find the North Star?" and get 4,460,000,000 hits, mostly ads for an ice cream bar called "The Big Dipper"" is literally what happens whenever youre trying to find something on google =) also there's a typo for google
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John Watt
Date: 5/2/2023 2:48:00 PM
CHKN, thanks for the read and the fun reply. The misspelling of Google was intentional, indicating the writer is easily confused technologically (Twitter,internet, and MySpace are also misspelled).
Date: 4/29/2022 6:02:00 AM
I understand this so well "at least I can work a toaster" and it made me happy to read.
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Date: 3/31/2022 10:40:00 PM
Penile colonies would not even get goggled on Piety Soup. John u got the scoop on humor this year, thx
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Date: 3/31/2022 12:30:00 PM
What a laugh - i love this poem, i know enough but not a lot about digital technology. You describe your experience with such keyboard confusion, but we learn as we get younger! A fave my friend, hope you are keeping well. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer.
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John Watt
Date: 3/31/2022 6:07:00 PM
Thank you dear friend, I am the King of Cluelessness when it comes to tech. I'm glad you enjoyed this and made it a fave, ever so grateful for your poetry friendship and encouragement over the years. Blessings and hugs ~ John
Date: 3/29/2022 5:43:00 PM
Hey, I'll bet you played 'Pac-Man though,' and that you were even pretty good at it! ~ Joystick, gobble those pellets...
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John Watt
Date: 3/30/2022 7:48:00 AM
wokka wokka wokka wokka
Date: 3/24/2022 10:09:00 AM
Yes, I remember answering machines! And VHS tapes (be kind, rewind) And digital pagers! And pay phones (when was the last time you saw one of those?) I am lucky I figured out email :)
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John Watt
Date: 3/24/2022 3:48:00 PM
And phone books with yellow pages, and the milkman, and film processing, and music cassettes... ah the good old days. Thanks for the fun comment!
Date: 3/22/2022 5:31:00 PM
amazing work, John WOW. Gotta fave this one. I hope you took a high placement. it was well deserved. Sorry I can't see more. I see you have written others I have not seen but my time is limited these days. i can barely keep up with comments before they scroll into oblivion
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John Watt
Date: 3/24/2022 3:43:00 PM
It's okay, I fully understand busy schedules. I sure appreciate the fave.
Date: 3/21/2022 9:27:00 AM
John, your poem sums up the trials and frustrations with digital, beginning with the computer. I laughed aloud at "cyber censors block my search for 'penal colonies" Great write! Congratulations!
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John Watt
Date: 3/24/2022 3:42:00 PM
Thank you for the uplifting words of appreciation, Ann. I'm glad you enjoyed this.
Date: 3/21/2022 12:30:00 AM
Great and beautiful narration .Congratulations!
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John Watt
Date: 3/24/2022 3:40:00 PM
I appreciate your kind words Christuraj
Date: 3/19/2022 8:06:00 AM
Very entertaining if it wasn't so true to my experience with technology. It was a good trigger for a flashback of how my kids and especially my grandkids see me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us through poetry, John. Good luck in the contest. Bill
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John Watt
Date: 3/24/2022 3:40:00 PM
Thank you Bill, I think we can both relate to the tech generation gap.
Date: 3/16/2022 11:57:00 PM
This is a really funny one, John, you sure seem to know your technology:) loved the autocorrect line:)
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John Watt
Date: 3/17/2022 10:16:00 AM
Thank you for that lovely compliment, Jo. I'm actually an electrical engineer by profession, but technology changes faster than I can keep up with it!
Date: 3/16/2022 1:38:00 PM
I'm smiling reading this John. You don't happen to have a drawer full of wires at home as well do you? Wires complete with plugs that don't appear to belong to anything you own. :) Just asking for a friend. :) Cheers - Gary
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John Watt
Date: 3/17/2022 10:13:00 AM
actually I do, Gary... it's the same drawer with all the floppy disks instruction manuals from 25 years ago, lol. You can let your "friend" know that it's perfectly normal behavior for us old geezers. Cheers ~ John
Date: 3/16/2022 1:32:00 PM
oh, i can so relate to this one, john! i am 100% in the same boat as you are, barely keeping afloat. i actually never minded getting up off my rear end to manually change the channels on the tv!
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John Watt
Date: 3/17/2022 10:15:00 AM
i remember when remotes were new, i thought "why would anybody ever need that, the tv's only 5 feet away!"
Date: 3/16/2022 1:15:00 PM
....have you been monitoring my internet inefficiencies ..... i was just trying to find out where they hid the "cookies".....DAMMIT.....The Captcha for this comment is......9AD
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John Watt
Date: 3/17/2022 9:49:00 AM
ah, my birth year... what a coincidence! Thanks for dropping by, John
Date: 3/16/2022 10:45:00 AM
I think we arrived late for the digital party John, Kids do look at you like you're from the jurassic period lol. Good luck in the contest hope you're keeping well. Tom
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John Watt
Date: 3/17/2022 9:50:00 AM
I'm thankful for my kids, without them I'd have no idea how to get my phone to work. Thanks for the visit, Tom.

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