Ann-droid

A take on our obsession with mobile phones!

Ann-droid

 

Ann as was - human!

Now symbiotic creature

Damned mobile - master

Of near all it surveys

Devouring time and space

A TARDIS - who knows

How far it goes

Insinuating wormlike

our very cortex

 

perhaps one chance left

for humankind

to bugger up

the likes of voda

phone - one last coda

fore nokias RIP

 

once we did without - us all

and life was free from thrall

of ringtone hell

earful chatter about

absolutely nothing

 

and as for me -

I’ve just taken a hammer to the bloody thing!

 

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

"Ann-droid"
alangraham,
This was a fun take on the encompassing position of modern technology in our lives.
Whether we are sitting at computers and wasting time...should I say it?
Our phones are an extension which can follow us anywhere and trace location, opinion, appearance.
It is not what I would of realized would become such a large part of our day to day lives.
This was a great line:
"once we did without- us all
and life was free from thrall
of ringtone hell
earful chatter about absolutely nothing"
You did such a good job throughout of using terminology applicable to your subject with poetic rhyme and flow. Loved the smile it invoked!
Blessings,
Kathy

[alanwgraham]

Thanks kathy. You had to dig deep to find this one from a few years ago. I must admit that I have a love hate relationship with this device. Believe it or not my predictive texting didn't allow me to say hate.
All the best.
Alan

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Alan, I feel the same. Iv'e gotten use to having this 'convenience.' Have a great weekend. Texting, hardly bother but sometime it comes in handy. We might as well smile right?
Best regards,
Kathy

[barleygirl]

I read this poem awhile back, but didn't review becuz I could not relate to all the references . . . since I've never had a cell phone . . . I hate all phones & the assumption that we should drop everything to answer them. I definitely feel a sense of being totally fed up in your words . . . but then why not get rid of the thing? Or at least limit it's realm in one's life? You've definitely hit on a current addiction for many.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i love the way you presented this all - too - real composite of today's youth and now even older folks with the cell phones stuck in their ears...people are never where they are anymore...we see couples in a restaurant....out on a dinner date, both texting other people...
and drivers looking at the road only half the time---students in our classes so addicted we have trouble keeping them off the phones for 50 minutes...such a bad thing...the face to face of life deteriorating...

j.