Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Book

The book is a passenger pigeon,

Once numbered in billions of tomes;

Now it is gone from the school house,

The library and all our homes.

Perhaps there's a prisoner somewhere,

Immured behind bars for a stretch,

Who reads a good book in his spare time

And with the cockroaches plays fetch.

But otherwise media dictates

We gaze at a screen 'til our eyes

Turn grey and become rather flaccid,

Like leftover drive-in French fries.

I guess now the forests will prosper,

Since printing is digital, natch.

And if a short circuit should happen,

We'll have to start over from scratch.



check out the rest of the Windows Live™. More than mail–Windows Live™ goes way beyond your inbox. More than messages

No comments: