ring tones

ISN

devotees of the mobile phone
bend over as if in prayer
and study their phones
as though they were holy books

you can spot them everywhere
they speak to them in
public confessionals,
and mime the holy hymns that
call them to worship

they pay penance every month
in seconds and minutes
and fondle their rosaries
with abject adoration

Anna_falk

I agree, people live with their mobilphones.
Do we really need to be reached at all times and everywhere ?
Not many places can be visited without hearing these ringtones.

Anna_falk

And does it make us more happy ?

ISN

it gives us some kind of false sense of security.....and any kind of security is desirable.....all we need to do is smile at each other and talk to each other......we're all so desperate......we've been abused and used.....and we're doing it to each other......I don't care if people bloody build altars to mobile phones, as long as they try to understand each other and spread teh love......:D.....I feel like an idiot, but mobile phones are not the problem.....it's our own lack of civility......and we're so alike all of us.....heh.....so much for punctuation!!!!!

FinsburyParkCarrots

I have one on my desk somewhere that someone gave me and I've never used it. I can feel my head cooking when I put one of those things up to it.

pearlmutt

love the poem.

hate the cell phone.

(I made it all the way up to this year without one. then someone insisted that he buy me one. I was in love with it for about a month, now the battery is dead.)

"And does it make us more happy ?"

not me.

the weirdest thing yet has been seeing people hold them up at concerts. But you know, to each his own.

Rayne

Ahhhh...yes, the concert thing. That's the dumbasses using the picture phones so they can send all their cool friends who are at home with nothing better to do pictures of the concert that they were too lazy/cheap/uninterested in to purchase a ticket to actually see but for SOME inane reason they will enjoy the picture of said concert?! OR I also know of some who somehow use their phones to record the concert onto their hard drive.

I HATE the things. I had one for years, thought I HAD to. Then the battery died, I cancellled it after a week of not using it and haven't gone back to get one.

I hate how people walk around shouting into them for the entire world to have to bear witness to their most private conversations. I hate to hear them ring while I watch a movie, (It inevitably happens at least once every single time, no matter how many times that flash that "please silence your cel phones" message during "the twenty"). I hate hearing snippets of out of date electronically reproduced songs and then having them stuck in my head all day. I hate running on a treadmill and having to have the chick next to me be talking SO loud into her phone that I have to turn up my headphones to be able to hear PJ. MOst of all I hate those damn walkie talkie things - now I get to hear BOTH sides of those conversations! MANNERS, people! Are they extinct?!

grooveamatic

This is a great poem. Period.

olderman

i like the part where they fondle their rosaries..

very good poem ISN.

Thanks!!

ISN

thanks you guys.....:)

I saw a man in a gazebo in the hospital grounds when I took Torin there on Wednesday, and I'd just seen the hospital sign 'temporary hospital chapel'....the man was bent over, and because of the sign, at first I thought he was bent over in prayer, which would have been great.....a nice sign of public piety in these crazy days, but when I got closer, I realized he was studying his mobile phone.....heh

burtschips

ISN wrote:

thanks you guys.....:)

I saw a man in a gazebo in the hospital grounds when I took Torin there on Wednesday, and I'd just seen the hospital sign 'temporary hospital chapel'....the man was bent over, and because of the sign, at first I thought he was bent over in prayer, which would have been great.....a nice sign of public piety in these crazy days, but when I got closer, I realized he was studying his mobile phone.....heh

maybe he was praying, maybe he'd downloaded a holy book onto his wop mobile and was reading its lessons.

asphalt

yeah never used one myself .... never want to ... who wants to be reachable all the time ... everywhere ... nice point made

steppenwolf

grooveamatic wrote:

This is a great poem. Period.

in total agreement.

DopeBeastie

The Feds actually used cell phone "need" to their advantage in the seedier parts of Denver, Colorado. (I'm sure they did it elsewhere, with mad success, too, but anyway.)

They offered cell phones through some company, at a very cheap rate. All the junkies and dealers picked one up. Their conversations were monitored and a whole bunch of arrests were made.

I like having mine. If one of my kids needs me, I am available. I like that.


Nice piece

IfGoingRightIsWrong

totally publishable

ISN

thanks.....but it's been published....here.....:D.....

this is where I publish....

CoffeeHound

I am terribly smitten with this poem. ISN--a true marvel!

christmascleanlove

......coolest poem EVER!!!!

ISN

I'm smitten with all you sweet PJ fans....