technology
impacts us all
in different ways

for some of us, the convenience is worth it
and we wouldn’t have the life we have
or the friends we’ve made
without it

for some of us, there has been more bad created than good
and the stress and hassle of all the social media
and expectations and designed obsolescence
it just makes us
furious

and then there are some of us
who would love to love technology
but technology just doesn’t love us —
we are always the one person in the system where
errors perpetually occur, or
those technological wonders we hear about just won’t work
when we’re in the room,
and the minute we touch an item
it is broken without
explanation

[you may think there must be a logical explanation
for this curse, but let me tell you, as the person with it,
with a spouse who works in computer technology as an engineer,
has seen it first hand, and whose mind was changed,
it absolutely is real]