MY LAPTOP WAS AN ETCH-A-SKETCH

Cherry

By moonphish

Wed, 01 Oct 2014
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looking back on childhood days
it really makes me laugh
my most sophisticated toy ?
a simple phonograph
.
a needle placed into a groove
and when it reached the end
i sent it through that route once more
so i could hear again
.
a small transistor radio
would sometimes take its place
and waves of sweet transmission
would descend from outer space
.
my t.v. played in black and white
upon a tiny screen
i'd have to use crayolas
for some colours to be seen
.
my only kind of telephone
was hooked up to my house
i only thought of mickey
when referring to a mouse
.
my only form of browsing
was upon a yellow page
my fingers did the walking
in that different time and age
.
i had no calculator
on my fingers i'd rely
for more advanced mathematics
then an abacus, i'd try
.
i'd go out to a theater
to see a brand new flick
i had no apparatus
with a slot for discs to stick
.
a spider formed a website
that they wove themselves, complete
my laptop was an etch-a-sketch
you'd shake it to delete
.
seems all of science fiction
slowly turned into pure fact
but back then i was happy
for i knew not what i lacked
 
 
 
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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Enjoyed again. Did you mean to have 'My' in the title?
Particularly liked the shaking to delete! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by moonphish on

thanks so much...oops...messed up the title...will fix