Verse for Technophobes, by Gillian Southgate

TO MY COMPUTER

How do I hate thee?  Let me count the ways.

I hate the way you come up ‘undefined’

Or stop my password when I go online.

I really hate the way you say ‘hooray’

When junk mail fails to register as mine.

I hate the silly stories on the screen -

Who cares who Harry’s dating or he’s not?

I do not want to know where cars are cheap

Or if Obama’s Irish, Greek, or what.

I never Tweet, or Twitter, never go

To Facebook.  I just want to use

You like a reference book and writing tool.

But then, I am not young, and you

Somehow detect this, and I feel a fool.

Gillian Southgate 2015