(replaced by machines not requiring coffee
breaks or even a civil good morning)
must think of all those glossy sleek electrons
talking as they do in 0s and 1s
Poor Herr Frankenstein could tell us a tale or two I'll wager
and mr. e.e. cummings tried to tell
us to temper our logic with human passion
but next thing you know
well we've got automatic tellers electronic mail e-commerce
it's a good thing we're getting away from actually meeting each other
cause we just don't listen.
But then my cell phone rings.
A search and rescue callout. Emergency location transmitter signal
received
(so that's where that overdue airplane ended up)
gotta run moments worth the wait in gold
grab the ELT locator
extra batteries for the GPS
Gore-tex parka, naturally
keys to the 4X4
radio already in the truck
helicopter on the way
hey, wait a minute...
