Sidney Beck Poet Couplet

On the Knife Edge

ON THE KNIFE EDGE


City without electricity - a  lost town  - 
Phones don’t work, internet’s down.

Food spoils in freezer, coffee can’t perk;
Traffic lights out, everybody’s a jerk.

Elevators don’t work  -  gotta climb, climb: 
And read fast before sun-down  time.

Learn to cook over a candle,
Electric can-opener? Use the handle.

Back to the stone age in a second
Life’s not as easy as you reckoned.

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Joe Maverick August 12, 2011 at 5:59 PM Pertinent Sydney pertinent..

Steven Cooke August 9, 2011 at 7:33 AM so true, how dependant we have become. i like this .a good write