A Handwritten Note…

A Handwritten Note…

(to the fellow in Starbucks

fascinated by his phone)

Look up!

Look around.

Not everything you need

can be found

on that itsy-bitsy screen

(if you know what I mean.)

You smiled at me once,

(by chance, perhaps)

then relapsed

to your online

browsing trance.

It’s possible, maybe,

(do you like to dance?)

we have a latte to share.

But we’ll never know

if you just persist

in that single-minded

cell phone stare.

So set aside that fandangle

and talk to a human being.

There’s more to life

(and more to me)

than you (and that cell)

are seeing.

PSC / 2018

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