Poems

A computer was something on TV
from a science fiction note,
a window was something you hated to clean ...
And RAM was the cousin of a goat .....

Meg was the name of my girlfriend
and gig was a job for the nights,
now they all mean different things
and that really mega bytes...

An application was for employment
a program was a TV show,
a cursor used for profanity
a keyboard was a piano...

Memory was something that you lost with age
and a virus was the flu,
Compress was something you did to the garbage
not something you did to a file...

Log on was adding wood to the fire
hard drive was a long trip on the road,
a mouse pad was where a mouse lived
and a web was a spider's home...

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
and the memory in my head,
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
but when it happens they wish they were dead ......

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say Hi?
You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.