Sign of the Times

S ee this new time we are in - this strange sedentary society, sitting I n rooms, on subway trains, and nearly everywhere with some device in hand. G one are the days of friendly oral chatter. N owadays folks chat to friends across the room from them while. . . O n their phone, they send their friend a text as they continue F iddling around with phones so great their names begin with Smart. T humbs have become the most exercised appendage. H ow can people, everywhere it seems, E ven survive without technology's advancements? T heir family meals also find them often on their cell phones. I nformation rules the day, but what of conversation with with their parents? M odern man has come so far that E mptiness threatens to entomb the souls of those S tuck in the time of the world's most accelerating "progress." April 27, 2018 for John Hamilton's Sign of the Times" Poetry Contest (oops, had to quickly add in the word "of")