Old Man and the Net


No, no.  Do not disenchant my world today,
With keyboards or that screen.
I have a life to live,
One that involves breathing beings.

Please do not hold out that thing to me.
That small writhing thing full of numbers.
I've had to talk to family twice this morning.
It put me completely off my sandwich. 

I'll take that book of poems.
The one that was written pre-net.
It has no depressing abbreviations
About laughing off your bits.


There's  a lady at the library, 
Who appreciates men like me.
No! Not old and wrinkly, you ass.
She likes her beaus wire free.

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