• Share

  Tweet

• how it works
• 

---

Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Digital Detox (04/24/14)

---

• TITLE: Livin' In Recovery | Previous Challenge Entry
  By Donna Tijou
  04/30/14
• 
  
  
    LEAVE COMMENT ON ARTICLE
    SEND A PRIVATE COMMENT
    ADD TO MY FAVORITES

---

The first of the century,
the last of the year,
I sent my love a letter
while I shed a little tear.

I don’t have an ipad,
tho’ I think they’re very fine.
But would you spare me a minute?
Could you lend a little time?

I listened quite intently,
my ear near the ground,
yet heard not a thing,
no, nary, not a sound.

I was very saddened
with the absence of reply.
I cried another tear,
and told a little lie.

I said:

I can do this thing,
livin’ in a digit-free zone.
I can get by quite nicely
without my cell phone.

The old rotary
attached to the wall
is all I'll need
when I want to make a call.

I can pay bills by check;
I can write with pen and ink.
Don’t need my computer,
just need time to think.

I can snap pics with camera
by pressin’ on the shutter,
and develop in a darkroom
just as smooth as spreadin’ butter.

I can spin vinyl records
and my old forty-fives,
on a phonograph and turntable,
playing music that revives.

With cover front and back,
I can read a printed book.
Don’t need to use a scroll
nor a Kindle or a Nook

Emails, texts or tweets,
this gal doesn’t need.
Don’t care how notes are sent,
or with what rate of speed.

I can mail letters in a box
with envelope and stamp,
just like kids writing home
from their summer camp.

I can look in a dictionary
and research an old tome.
sitting in a library
in a dark and dusty room.

I can record on tape
and play it reel to reel,
even watch analog TV,
while I eat my evening meal.

I can live the way
people used to do.
That’s what I tell myself
when I’m feeling blue.

This digital detox
is more than I can take.
I just pretend to like it
as happiness I fake

It seems that in recovery,
where nothin’s a click away,
and livin’ in rehab,
is where I need to stay.

---

---

---

The opinions expressed by authors may not necessarily reflect the opinion of FaithWriters.com.

---

If you died today, are you absolutely certain that you would go to heaven? You can be right now. CLICK HERE

JOIN US at FaithWriters for Free. Grow as a Writer and Spread the Gospel.

---