I’ve been actively looking for a job which has kept me from
posting anything. So far, no success- at
least not for a job I really want. So
will I be facing a very long freezing cold winter here? Looks like it….
ENDLESS PHONING
The first time I witnessed cell phone excess was in the 90’s. I was in Rome in a restaurant next to a table
of 20 somethings. They barely gave the
waiter enough attention to place their orders, still holding onto their phones
almost through the entire dinner. Now,
it’s commonplace. In Rite-Aid the clerk
told me she felt invisible since customers barely acknowledged her. Last weekend I went to see the Balle Fokloric
de Bahia. Now this is a fabulous dance
troupe with great musicians and drumming that keeps you moving to the
music. Or not. A woman in front of me was glued to her cell
phone even though the drummers and dancers came up the stairs into the
audience. Well, maybe that got her
attention.
I’m guilty of the
cell phone connectedness. It gives me
something to do with my nervous fingers.
It helps me block out all the crazies on my daily public transportation. I hope I know the limits of my escapism
before I miss something wonderful or important.
The deaths of two refugee students last week led me to this….
and my own parents’ escape from the war.
HERITAGE
Buy gold
Buy it now.
When you flee
the home exploding,
the burnt landscape,
trade it for a loaf of bread.
Remember poems,
as many that
fill the confined
calendar days
of prison.
Very nice poem!
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