Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

If the Internet Goes Down

If the internet goes down completely, one hundred percent never to come back again,
Will we be able to move on?
How?
Will we have to go outside again and speak to our neighbors?  Making them our friends?
Because our computer friends will all be gone?
Will we have to write letters to our computer friends?
But without addresses, this is impossible, right?
If the internet goes down
Never to ever be revived
Will we spend time listening to our children?
Getting to know our spouses?
Trying to understand our in-laws?
If the internet goes down, will we learn to be human again?
Will we learn to listen?
Will we learn to communicate with the ones who live in our houses?
If the internet goes down?

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M. L. Kiser October 23, 2018 at 5:23 PM We'll have to wait and see...eventually it's bound to...I hope it's only after I've transferred funds into my account and not before. Tee-hee! A very good question. Caren Krutsinger October 23, 2018 at 7:39 PM I truly do not know if some people could start being social without it.

Line Gauthier October 22, 2018 at 9:41 PM Good questions. Thought provoking. Love it, Caren. Caren Krutsinger October 22, 2018 at 10:37 PM Thank you Line. The crashing of the site inspired it.

Rhona Mcferran October 22, 2018 at 7:16 PM Scary thought... I wouldn't mind most of it, except for the loss of my "poetry friends"- and that would be a great loss, indeed!! Rhona Mcferran October 23, 2018 at 9:41 AM Yes, definitely!!! Caren Krutsinger October 22, 2018 at 10:37 PM I do believe we would find a way to still be in touch Rhona. Anyway, I do hope so!