The Future Bytes

The Future Bytes

By Brandon Palzkill

Technology is the future;

hover cars, ray guns,

time machines, warp speed;

science fiction, cradled

in the palms of our hands.

Fantasies soon dissolve.

Reality takes over,

while I stare at the modern

convenience before me,

and see an evening, lost,

inconveniently.

Waiting for my world to process;

doesn’t support my file type.

Flash of blue – bad pool caller,

system not responding;

waiting, still…

Is this the way of the future?

Flawed little Tinker Toys

that seek to frustrate and confuse?

If so, I think I’d like to go

back to the stone age…

happy simplicity.