[ Napo 2017 ] The Popsicle Stick Poet

   
Although I grew up  
in the era of typewriters  
and spiral notebooks  
I am a poet of the Digital Age  
   
Inconceivable it is   
the prospect of not  
tapping away on a tablet  
with a faux pencil stylus  
or my usual four fingers  
pounding laptop keys  
into early retirement  
   
hacking and slashing  
with the glorious Godsend  
that is Cut And Paste    
   
though this be my bane  
as it is the number leading  
cause of death to perfect verse  
riddling it with typos and other  
artifacts of oddness 
   
I am not destined long for this world  
as a writer without electricity  
and there is no going back to    
the way things were  
   
but will do my best to adapt  
even if it means scribbling  
onto wooden popsicle sticks    
laying them on the floor  
rearranging them willy nilly  
snapping apart my thoughts  
if need be, until the message    
is picked up loud and clear