Mobile Phone

When mobile phones appeared on campus around 1998....

Listen a while

This phone is mobile

The ritual of our time

No more bells to chime

Why should drums roll;

If you can stand far and call?

You can be absent

And make things look decent

There you stand in a file

As long as the River Nile

To buy this Sim card so tiny

That it is almost funny

And there you are again, the speaker

Hopping around like a grasshopper

For life without a handset that is mobile

Is like looking for a needle in a pile

Never easy to find

Yet disturbing not to mind

There is no need for a wedding ring

Or a choir out there to sing

Unless mobile phone is part of the plan

To marry into the clan

You should not attend a funeral

Unless it is there to make you look like a General

Thundering out orders

To your solemn brothers

All about the state of affairs

And the small number of chairs

You can then go to pray

To show it off on another day

Reviews

[Anju Juneja]

beautiful lines about the device, that has become a necessary vice

[Joseph Eluzai]

Thanks, Anju.