#696 - mobile culture

 

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mobile culture

 

everyone’s had that phone grow up around them

beware what you wish thing

no one grew up with this

 

it rings

chimes up a tune

you answer the call

or fiddle for it

willing

 

take death to heart

re-start

 

tap the code

and in

play hell boy

it’s like everyone

got the safe cracker ap

brave new world, what else

 

can do anything with it

read the Bible, speak to Mars

take pictures of your privates

and send them to the devil too

there are recipes and Mozart

spread a lie

 

once in the workings

like Charlie Chaplin

in Modern Times

drop spanner in the works

 

lost corridors

creatures never known

a make-up mirror too

 

phone like  forest

of icons, sound, word

xylem phloem lifts

 

don’t you like to imagine

how it might be

if just the one of us

had these powers

 

but that’s not how it goes

 

there are still some pictures remaining

of the time before

(you’ll never finish sorting)

some say travel there is next

 

you can set an alarm

then the future is here

 

how old hat that will seem