Remember rotary phones?
What did we do back then
if we didn’t have a phone
and had to walk a mile
to get to the bus stop?
Remember telephone booths?
Remember when the question was
how many college kids can fit into one telephone booth?
Let’s say I wanted to get a message to you.
Do you remember what we used to do?
Remember the typewriter.
Remember the haiku
on the wine-stained menu.
Remember the answering machine.
Click here for the rest of "Remember the Typewriter", which was posted on The Common Online in May 1. 2013. Warm thanks to poetry editor John Hennessy.