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This Digital Age

There's no more need to talk now In today's digital age Where all the friends I really need Are on my Facebook page Three hundred some odd plus Are with me day and night They're all as close as they need be With one push of my button "Like" These digital days permit me to say Will be the ruin of this age If I knew how better to type I'd have so much more to say You've started posting all these pictures From someone else's site So I'm not sure if it's you anymore Or them I really I like Is this how we all now feel Can we even feel now anymore What I feel like most of the time Is being locked behind closed doors This digital age is all the rage That's driving me insane Trying to get to the nearest exit But no one will let me over to change lanes Then there's the text and text and text and text Until we're all text out And after all that texting Do we know what we've texted about If we ever sat down with someone Across from them face to face Would we stare at each other blankly With no earthly idea of what to say With this digital craze, it's getting late We've wandered too far inside this maze I'm afraid if we don't get out soon There will be no chance for escape

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 3/18/2018 8:37:00 AM
This sums it up exactly, to be in touch with the younger generation, I was forced kicking and screaming into the electronic social media world.
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Date: 3/17/2018 10:49:00 PM
Great write Mike! I love it. Of course I had to be online to read it... Life unplugged will soon be history, for that and reading this I feel happily blessed to have grown up before this hyper impersonal limitless computer age. As impressive as technology gets, still not as impressive as a sunset.
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Date: 3/17/2018 10:34:00 PM
I love this one Mike. I do not even own a cell phone and rarely do i answer emails. Change is not always for the better.
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Date: 3/17/2018 11:19:00 AM
Lovely poem, Mike. A sad but wonderful socio-technological overview of these troubled times.
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