Friday 17 April 2020

NaPoWriMo 2020, Day 17, Try telling the young people today.


It's
not quite
drinking a cup 

of 
sulphuric acid.
Not working twenty-nine 

hours
a day
down mine, paying

mill 
owner for
permission to come

to 
work. BUT,
trying to explain

the 
bloody agony
of waiting for

t'internet
to connect.
The taunting little 

tune 
it trilled.
Being booted off 

because 
mam wanted
to phone Aunt 

Jeanie. 
Torture sheer 
torture. But you
 
try 
and tell
the young people 

today 
that...they 
won't believe ya. 

Today's prompt was to write a poem about obsolete technology.  Obviously paying homage to

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