The whole culture of life has changed since the mobile/cell phone took over from face to face conversations.
What has become of conversation
lost it seems
left with a past generation,
now it is heads down
looking at mobile device
even while out eating
might look up
once or twice.
Out at a theater
cannot leave it alone
irritating people
in the same row.
Like zombies strutting around
sometimes voices raised
shouting aloud
no one about,
even the delivery man comes to your door
hands you your package
while engaged elsewhere.
No one is talking one to one
seems like the mobile
has shifted the mind
those mobiles have them
hypnotized.
I met Jerome on a busy city street in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was forty-five years old. On that particular day, I was out and about, enjoying a much-needed day off from work.
I wanted to purchase a sukiyaki sub. I parked my car in an area of
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