Modern Content

I try to not dance with the tinfoil hats
but sometimes I wonder when looking at life
if tech isn’t grafted to children too young,
the tyranny of YouTube videos
of turtles belching Taylor Swift
and sketches by middle-school kids,
in front of green screens, evoking the latest
video games. At least kids played them once,
and didn’t just watch some Illinois dopes
remake the bloody things. But I don’t know,
I was born an old man, was never young,
and probably would have decried the move
to parchment from tablets. I just wish that books
were still sometimes in vogue.